Legal Opinion
Baysinger v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided May 16, 1977No. CR76-229PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Conley Byrd, Justice.
This appeal comes from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding appellant Robert Andrew Baysinger guilty of capital murder and fixing his punishment at life imprisonment without parole.
The record shows that Billy Joe Holder, the decedent, had been sheriff of Searcy County for a number of years. Loren Reeves ran against Holder for sheriff in 1972 but Holder won. Loren Reeves ran again in 1974 for sheriff and this time defeated Holder. Thereafter, Holder, over the objections of Reeves, was employed by the State as an enforcement agent with the Alcohol Beverage Control…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. TurnerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
- Bonicelli v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1959
- Kerr v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1974
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Kitchen v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
- Sumlin v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1979
- Bell v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2007
- Walton v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
- Childress v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
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