Bell v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Conway Circuit Court; M. L. Davis, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On the 5th of May, 1915, Hon. M. L. Davis, judge of the Fifth Judicial 'Circuit, called a ¡special term ’of the Conway 'Circuit Court to ¡meet on the 18th of May. The call recited that Sam Bell was accused of murder 'and [confined in jail, and that the call was made for the purpose of investigating ¡and disposing of the charge.
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Appeal from Conway Circuit Court; M. L. Davis, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On the 5th of May, 1915, Hon. M. L. Davis, judge of the Fifth Judicial 'Circuit, called a ¡special term ’of the Conway 'Circuit Court to ¡meet on the 18th of May. The call recited that Sam Bell was accused of murder 'and [confined in jail, and that the call was made for the purpose of investigating ¡and disposing of the charge. The special term convened on the day ordered- in the call, and a grand jury was empanelled, which returned four separate indictments against Bell, charging him with the crime of murder in the…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
I. The ’appellant contends that the judgment sentencing him to he electrocuted is void under the act of March 20, 1915, which is Act No. 187 of the Acts of 1915, at page 774. The act is entitled, “An Act giving the jury the right to render a verdict of life imprisonment in the ’State penitentiary in all cases where the punishment is now death by law. ’ ’ The act provides:
“Sec. 1. That the jury shall have the right in all eases where the punishment is now death by law to render a verdict of life imprisonment in the State penitentiary at hard labor.
“Sec. 2. That iall laws -and parts of laws in…
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