Kirkpatrick v. State

John P. Kirkpatrick prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for attempting to induce Gethel Coates to withhold her evidence in the case of State of Arkansas against Lilburn Kirkpatrick, pending in the Saline Circuit Court.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the indictment. The charging part of the indictment contains the following:

"The said John P. Kirkpatrick, in the county and State aforesaid, on or about the 21st day of November, A.D. 1927, did unlawfully, willfully and corruptly attempt, directly and…