Shelton v. State

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

On the afternoon of January the 17th, 1976, Clermon Eugene Acklin was drinking gin with some of his friends and betting on a pool game at the Pine Street Recreation Center in Little Rock. Acklin felt that some of the players had teamed up on him to cheat him. He had words with Isaac Milton Shelton and some of the other players and bettors. He left the pool hall, returned shortly thereafter and said something like, “Are you ready to use your forty-five? I am ready now”. Apparently he said this to no particular individual. He left the pool hall again and went to his…