Walker v. State

488 S.W.2d 40 (1972)

Charles WALKER, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. 5773.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 18, 1972.

James R. Howard, of Howard, Howard & Howard, Little Rock, for appellant.

Ray Thornton, Atty. Gen. by James A. Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

BYRD, Justice.

For reversal of his first degree murder conviction, appellant Charles Walker contends that the trial court erred in failing to declare a mistrial after commenting on the evidence and in failing to permit the jury to pass on the voluntariness of a confession.

The record discloses that during the…