Wilkerson v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The indictment charged appellant with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleging that he “did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought, and of premeditation and deliberation, kill and murder one Amanda Turner by then and there striking, beating and cutting her with a certain axe,” etc. The indictment was sufficient.
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Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The indictment charged appellant with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleging that he “did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought, and of premeditation and deliberation, kill and murder one Amanda Turner by then and there striking, beating and cutting her with a certain axe,” etc. The indictment was sufficient. There was proof tending to show that on the morning of the killing the appellant sold Amanda Turner a pocketbook, and when she placed her money in the.pocketbook the…
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, J.,
(after stating the facts). The instructions of the court applicable to the facts in evidence were correct, and we deem it unnecessary to set them out and comment upon them as they only involve familiar principles of law that have been often announced by this court.
There was no error in the ruling of the court in refusing to permit appellant to show by the justice of the peace that he intended by the page of his record which appellant offered to introduce to enter a judgment against the witness, Mark Hanna Washington, for petit larceny. The record shows that the lower court examined…
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