State v. Meharg

ROGERS, Justice.

William. Meharg, William Landers, William Heard, and Floyd Boyce were convicted of the murder of Frank C. Gartman and sentenced to death. They took this appeal, relying on two complaints to obtain a reversal of their conviction and sentences.

A brief statement of the facts will be helpful to understand the legal propositions involved in appellants’ complaints.

In the early part of September, 1940, a general prison break occurred at the Arkansas Penitentiary, when thirty-five or forty prisoners escaped. Six of the escaped convicts, including the four defendants in this case, made…