Lackey v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Baxter Circuit Court. It was error to refuse to allow appellant to show to what extent the gnu used would “scatter” at the ranges contended for by the state and defendants respectively. The evidence was relevant. 1 Whart. Or.
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Appeal from Baxter Circuit Court. It was error to refuse to allow appellant to show to what extent the gnu used would “scatter” at the ranges contended for by the state and defendants respectively. The evidence was relevant. 1 Whart. Or. Ev. §§ 20, 2.1; 42 Ark. 554; 29 A.rk. 386. Where the state relies upon circumstantial evidence, each material circumstance must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. 59 Ark. 426, 427. The instructions were not full enough. 9 S. W. 737; 10 S. W. 210; Wilson's Or. Forms, No. 714. It was error to require defendunts to examine jurors on the voir dire, before the…
1Opinion of the CourtRiddick, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment, of conviction for murder. On the 19th day of August, 1899, Thomas Hamilton was shot and killed near his home in Baxter county. He had gone from his house to a spring, riding one horse and leading two others, for the purpose of watering them. Shortly afterwards his wife heard the report of three gun shots fired in the direction of the spring. Hamilton had previously had a difficulty with Milton Lackey, one of the defendants, and Milton had made threats against him. These threats had been communicated to Hamilton and his wife, aud when she hoard the sudden…
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