Clark v. State

In order to establish his alibi, defendant, Clark, offered in evidence a receipt purporting to have been issued to him by an express company at Little Rock, Ark., at a time so near the time of the offense charged in the indictment as, if genuine and true in all its recitals, to refute the charge as to defendant’s presence at the time and place when and where the offense had been committed as witnesses for the state testified. For the further history of .the question now at issue, we quote from the opinion of the Court of Appeals as follows:

“The objection by the state was upon the grounds that…