Washington v. State

STATEMENT OF FACTS.

George Washington was convicted before a jury and sentenced to death under an indictment for murder, the body of which reads as follows:

"The grand jury of Pulaski County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse George Washington, James Turnage and Lindsey Turnage of the crime of murder in first degree, committed as follows, to-wit: The said George Washington, James Turnage and Lindsey Turnage, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 7th day of December, A.D. 1929, unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and with malice aforethought, and after…