Turner v. State

The appellant was convicted in tlie Calhoun Circuit Court of murder in the first degree, and his punishment was fixed at death by electrocution. Motion for new trial was filed, overruled by the court, and the ease is here on appeal.

W. A. May testified in substance that he lived at Ellisville, Arkansas, was a justice of the peace, and knew the appellant and Mrs. Turner; she lived about 200 yards from appellant’s house. There was a blind boy, a little girl, Delma, ten years old, and Dennis, Jr., eight years old; another son, Milvin, but he was in a C C C camp in South Carolina. Mrs. Turner…