Legal Opinion

Bright v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided February 9, 1948No. 4481PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

The only error urged is that testimony of accomplices was not corroborated. Pope’s Digest, $ 4017.

Estes Bright, with Elmer, Chester, and Harvey Davis — appellant’s half brothers — were charged with having feloniously entered the Bailey Chevrolet Building at Cabot and stealing an iron safe containing money. Grand larceny was predicated upon theft of $210. Bright was found guilty on both charges and his punishment fixed at six years in prison. The three Davis brothers entered pleas of guilty, but had not been sentenced when Bright was tried.

The Davis brothers, with…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Underwood v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1943

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Klimas v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
  2. Knight v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1958
  3. Farrar v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1966
  4. Miller v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1959

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