Carr v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court, Osceola District; B. E. L. Johnson, Judge; 1. The court erred in holding that defendant had no right tó ask the character witnesses for the State on cross-examination as to specific acts of violence on the p,art of deceased. 2. The argument of Hon. H. H. Rogers, counsel for the State, was prejudicial and improper. • 3. The trial judge in overruling objections to leading questions intimated to the jury his opinion that defendant should…
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Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court, Osceola District; B. E. L. Johnson, Judge; 1. The court erred in holding that defendant had no right tó ask the character witnesses for the State on cross-examination as to specific acts of violence on the p,art of deceased. 2. The argument of Hon. H. H. Rogers, counsel for the State, was prejudicial and improper. • 3. The trial judge in overruling objections to leading questions intimated to the jury his opinion that defendant should be convicted. 140 S. W. 282; 44 Ark. 120; 144 S. W. 196; 159 Id. 195-6; 67 Id. 756-7; 85 Id. 237; 11 Tex. App. 378. See,…
1Opinion of the CourtHumphreys, J.
Appellant was indicted in the Osceola District of the Mississippi Circuit Court for murder in the first degree, for killing George McCulloch, on the 13th day of August, 1920, with a club, to which he interposed the plea of self-defense. Upon the trial, he was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-one years. From the judgment of conviction, an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.
At the time of the tragedy, appellant and the deceased resided at Pride’s Spur upon the same farm. They had moved from Mississippi to that place in December, 1919.…
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