Reeves v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court; Hance N. Hutton, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Bud Reeves was indicted for murder in the first degree for the alleged killing of one Edmond Bratton. The trial was commenced on the 24th day of August, 1907, nine jurors having been accepted, when, at the noon hour, a recess was taken.
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Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court; Hance N. Hutton, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Bud Reeves was indicted for murder in the first degree for the alleged killing of one Edmond Bratton. The trial was commenced on the 24th day of August, 1907, nine jurors having been accepted, when, at the noon hour, a recess was taken. Defendant, at the time, requested that the jurors selected be kept together under charge of an officer, but his request was denied by the court, and exceptions were saved. Lula Poindexter, for the State, testified: “I was standing at a refreshment bar at a picnic at Pilgrim’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The appellant asks for a reversal upon two grounds, which are set up in his motion for a new trial.
1. He insists that the court erred in not keeping together in charge of an officer at the noon recess the nine jurors already selected to try the case, and that the jurors were subjected to improper influences. In support of that part of his motion, he filed the affidavits of witnesses to the effect that the general topic of conversation on the street was the trial of Bud Reeves, and that the prevalent opinion was that he ought to be hanged. There was also…
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