Ware v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Calhoun Circuit Court; George W. Hays, Judge; The testimony of Bell Wood was incompetent, and its admission prejudicial. She admitted that she had never told any one prior to the trial who the father of the bastard child was, and that the deceased did not know that appellant was accused of being its father.
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Appeal from Calhoun Circuit Court; George W. Hays, Judge; The testimony of Bell Wood was incompetent, and its admission prejudicial. She admitted that she had never told any one prior to the trial who the father of the bastard child was, and that the deceased did not know that appellant was accused of being its father. One who is accused of a crime cannot be convicted thereof by proof that he has committed another crime unless that other crime throws some light upon the motive of the defendant which actuated him in committing the crime with which he is charged, or, in case of an assault, on…
1Opinion of the CourtFrauenti-iae, J.
The defendant, Mose Ware, was tried in the Calhoun Circuit Court upon an indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree by killing one Craft Wood. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and prosecutes this appeal to obtain a reversal of the judgment upon that conviction.
The evidence on the part of the State tended to prove that the defendant was a colored school teacher, and the deceased, Craft Wood, was a colored preacher, and they lived for a number of years about one mile from each other. Upon the morning of January 22, 1907, the deceased was riding upon a horse…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Hollingsworth v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1890
- Newcomb v. . GriswoldNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Edmonds v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1879
- Darden v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1904
- Kee v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1873
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Rhea v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
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- Miller v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1965
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1931
- Shinn v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1921
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