Moore v. State

299 S.W.2d 838 (1957)

James MOORE et al., Appellants,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. 4862.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 18, 1957.

W. Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff, for appellants.

Thomas Gentry, Jr., Atty. Gen, Paul C. Rawlings, Asst. Atty. Gen, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The four appellants, Moore, Boyd, Boone, and Byrd, were convicted of murder in the first degree, committed in the perpetration of robbery, and were sentenced to death. A number of grounds are urged for a reversal of the judgment.

It is first contended that the court should have granted a change of venue. The…