Hamilton v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Logan Circuit Court. Jephtha H. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Charles Hamilton, on the 2d day of December, 1895, in the Charleston district of Franklin county, killed A. C. McAbee by shooting him with a gun. He surrendered himself, and was placed in jail at Ozark, in said county, to await the action of the grand jury.
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Appeal from Logan Circuit Court. Jephtha H. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Charles Hamilton, on the 2d day of December, 1895, in the Charleston district of Franklin county, killed A. C. McAbee by shooting him with a gun. He surrendered himself, and was placed in jail at Ozark, in said county, to await the action of the grand jury. The day for the holding of the next regular term of the circuit court for the Charleston district of said county, after said killing, was the first Monday in February, 1896; but the judge of the circuit court, on the 12th of December, 1895,…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts). The learned counsel for defendant have set up many grounds why the judgment of the circuit court in this case should be reversed. We will now proceed to notice such of these grounds as seem to us necessary to consider here.
In the first place, the record shows the facts that gave the circuit judge power to hold the special term of circuit court ordered by him, and at which the defendant was indicted. It is said that, had the trial of Hamilton commenced at the special term, it could not have been concluded before the commencement of the regular term of the…
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