Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 5, 1981No. CR 80-217PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
George Rose Smith, Justice.
The appellant, David Williams, was charged with capital murder, the information alleging that on July 8, 1979, David Williams, while committing burglary and aggravated robbery, premeditatedly and deliberately caused the death of Ruby Lynn Williams (a man apparently not related to the defendant David Williams). The jury imposed the death penalty. Several points for reversal are argued, not all of which require discussion.
On the night of the murder Ruby Lynn was spending the night at the home of Doris Soloman, in the Mandeville community in Miller county. Several…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Giles v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
- Miller v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
- Van Cleave v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
3Cited by41 opinions
- Zant v. StephensSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Cartwright v. MaynardCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1987
- Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- Clines v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
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