Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court, Ozark District. Jephtha H. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was indicted April 2, 1894, at a special ' term of the Logan circuit court, for murder in the first •degree. The indictment, omitting the caption, reads as follows : “ The grand jury of Logan county, in the name -and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse .J.
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Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court, Ozark District. Jephtha H. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was indicted April 2, 1894, at a special ' term of the Logan circuit court, for murder in the first •degree. The indictment, omitting the caption, reads as follows : “ The grand jury of Logan county, in the name -and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse .J. H. Jones of the crime of murder in the first degree, ■committed as follows, to-wit: The said J. H. Jones, on the 18th day of February, 1894, in the county aforesaid, unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, and of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts). The motion for a new trial sets out twenty grounds, but not all of these are seriously relied upon in argument here for reversal, and we will discuss such only as we understand counsel to urge here as grounds for reversal.
Discretion of continuances,
The application for continuance upon the ground that, at the same term of the court at which appellant was put upon his trial for the murder of Jesse Hibdon, he had been convicted of the murder of Charles Hibdon, which was calculated to prejudice him on his trial at the same term of the court for the murder of…
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