Davidson v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Boone Circuit Court; George W. Reed, Judge; 1. The right of a defendant to be present in a felony case is both statutory and constitutional. Kirby’s Dig., § 2339; Const., art. 2, § 10; 5 Ark 431; 10 Id. 325; 58 Id. 239; 30 Id. 328; 62 Id. 537; 44 Id. 331; 100 Id. 334; 146 U. S. 374; 4 Sup. Court Beporter, 204; 28 Am.
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Appeal from Boone Circuit Court; George W. Reed, Judge; 1. The right of a defendant to be present in a felony case is both statutory and constitutional. Kirby’s Dig., § 2339; Const., art. 2, § 10; 5 Ark 431; 10 Id. 325; 58 Id. 239; 30 Id. 328; 62 Id. 537; 44 Id. 331; 100 Id. 334; 146 U. S. 374; 4 Sup. Court Beporter, 204; 28 Am. Dec. 629, and notes; 110 U. S. 524; 40 Ala. 325; 49 Cal. 41; 8 Col. 457; 37 Fla. 162; 55 Ca. 521; 14 Bush, 769; 30 La. 367; 53 Miss. 363; 84 N. C. 412; 4 Ore. 198; 99 Ya. 816; 85 Wis. 400; 90 Mo. 37; 20 S. W. 758. All the courts' hold that receiving the verdict in…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
The defendant, Odus Davidson, was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree. He is accused in the indictment of murdering Ella Bar-ham, a young woman about eighteen years of age, who lived in Boone County, Arkansas, in the same neighborhood where defendant resided and where he had been reared.
There are several counts in the indictment, each charging the defendant with the crime of murder in the first degree, committed in different modes by killing Ella Barham. Each count of the indictment is legally sufficient as a charge of the crime of murder in the first degree, and the…
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