McCullars v. State

About one o’clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1930, the dead body of Agnew Mardis was found in a ditch beside the public road which ran from Harrisburg, Arkansas, to Bay Village, Arkansas, at a point about three miles south of Harrisburg in Poinsett County. There was one wound on the body made by a bullet which entered the head on the left side just below and slightly back of the left ear. There were no eyewitnesses to the killing.

The defendant Avas arrested in Williamson County, Texas, on or about the 10th day of April, 1930, returned to Arkansas, and tried in the circuit court…