Walker v. State

Hart, O. J.

Willie Walker was convicted of murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by killing Lena Walsh in Poinsett County, Arkansas, and his punishment was fixed by the jury at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. From the judgment rendered upon the verdict the defendant has appealed.

It is first insisted that the evidence is not legally sufficient to support the verdict. The record shows that about 12:00 o ’clock noon on December 12, 1929, the dead body of a woman was found a short distance from the Black Oak Road in Poinsett County between Marked Tree in Poinsett…