Hopson v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from 'Cleveland Circuit Court; Turner Butler, Judge; The change of venue ¡should have been granted. Kirby’s Digest, § 2318; 85 Ark. 536. The court should have instructed the jury ¡to return a verdict of not guilty. The court erred in its instructions to the jury. The argument of the prosecuting attorney was prejudicial.
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Appeal from 'Cleveland Circuit Court; Turner Butler, Judge; The change of venue ¡should have been granted. Kirby’s Digest, § 2318; 85 Ark. 536. The court should have instructed the jury ¡to return a verdict of not guilty. The court erred in its instructions to the jury. The argument of the prosecuting attorney was prejudicial. The court did not err in denying the petition for change of venue. 98 Ark. 139. There was no error of the court in refusing to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. 96 Ala. 24; 13 Tenn. (7 Yerg.) 259. Instructions Nos. 16 and 18 were properly given. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
'Carroll Hopson was indicted for the murder of Frank Armstrong, charged to have been committed by cutting him with a knife on the 23d day of April, 1914. He was tried :and convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being fixed by the jury at five years in the State penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction he has duly prosecuted an ¡appeal to this court.
It is first insisted by counsel for the defendant that the court erred in not granting him a .change of venue.
W. W. Mitchell, I. E. Moore, E. B. Buster and J. F. Wynne were supporting affiants to the defendant’s petition for…
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