Bailey v. State

The appellant was charged in the circuit court of the Chi chas awha district of Mississippi county, Arkansas, with the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of P. C. Kitsmiller on September 30, 1941; was tried and convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at ten years in the state penitentiary. An appeal is prosecuted to this court to reverse said judgment.

The killing for which appellant was tried occurred on September 30, 1941. On that day there was held, in the city of Blytheville, Arkansas, the annual National Cotton Picking Contest. Many…