Blakemore v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The three appellants, tried jointly before a jury, were all found guilty of interference with a law enforcement officer. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2804 (Repl. 1977). Of the four points for reversal only two need be discussed, it being unlikely that the other asserted errors will occur upon a retrial.

The State’s principal witness was Officer Fowlkes, who testified that the defendants forcibly prevented him from taking an intoxicated person into custody. At the beginning of the officer’s cross examination he said that on the day before the trial he had read his typewritten…