Legal Opinion

Yeager v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 19, 1928PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcHaney, J.

Appellants were indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to one year each in the penitentiary on a charge of unlawfully making and fermenting mash fit for distillation. They prosecute this appeal to reverse the judgment on the sole issue that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.

The rule of law governing this court on this assignment of error is that, if there is any substantial testimony tending to support the verdict, the judgment of conviction will not be set aside, for the reason that the guilt or innocence of the defendants is purely a question of fact for the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Holford v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1927
  2. Hogan v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1926
  3. Cook v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1927

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. O'Neal v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1929
  2. Casteel v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1941
  3. McCoy v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1928
  4. Jordan v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1942

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