Hill v. State

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

Presley Allen Hill, Jr. was convicted of first degree murder in the Lincoln County Circuit Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal to this court he relies on the following points for reversal:

“The defendant was tried in prison clothes in violation of his constitutional rights.

The defendant was never arraigned.

The defendant was never furnished a copy of the indictment or information although charged with a capital offense.”

The homicide involved in this case occurred in one of the so-called “isolation cells” in the maximum security building at the Arkansas…