Adams v. State

Appellant was charged with murder-in the first degree for killing Arthur Bowie while attempting to rob him, a pistol having* been used as the instrument of death. The defendant entered a plea of guilty to homicide. A jury found that the act constituted murder in the first degree, and that punishment should be death. Pope’s Digest, § 4041; Wells v. State, 193 Ark. 1092, 104 S. W. 2d 451.

The motion for a new trial challenges 'sufficiei^ of the evidence. Other errors alleged are: (a) The prosecuting attorney, having asked a witness "what, if anything, Ben Adams said when he came out of the…