Legal Opinion
Anderson Gene Dubois v. A.L. Lockhart, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 22, 1988No. 87-2512-EAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Anderson Gene Dubois of first degree murder in March, 1972. Dubois was sentenced to death by electrocution. The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed his conviction because the State had failed to offer evidence corroborating the testimony of two accomplices, as required by Arkansas statute. See Dubois v. State, 254 Ark. 543, 494 S.W.2d 700 (1973) (Dubois I). Dubois was retried, and reconvict-ed and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed this conviction because the State had presented additional evidence to corroborate the…
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