Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pope Circuit Court. H. S. Carter, Special Judge. Brown and King were jointly indicted for the murder of J. N. Jones. They severed at the trial, and Brown was convicted of murder in the second degree. By appeal he questions the action of the court in giving certain instructions, in refusing certain other instructions, in admitting certain expert evidence and in refusing to admit evidence of uncommunicated threats made by deceased.
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APPEAL from Pope Circuit Court. H. S. Carter, Special Judge. Brown and King were jointly indicted for the murder of J. N. Jones. They severed at the trial, and Brown was convicted of murder in the second degree. By appeal he questions the action of the court in giving certain instructions, in refusing certain other instructions, in admitting certain expert evidence and in refusing to admit evidence of uncommunicated threats made by deceased. The circumstances of the homicide are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The defendant offered to prove by Mrs. Medlin that a few days before the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mansfield, T. J.1. Experttestimony as to “^knowledge lnadmisslbleThe defendant sought an acquittal of the o j. charge against him, on the ground that the homicide was justifiable. The theory of the prosecution appears to have ■been that the killing was an assassination. It occurred at the dwelling house of Mrs. Martha Ratliff. She was the ¡mother-in-law of Brown, and he and his wife were there as her guests. He had come into the neighborhood at the request of Mrs. Ratliff for the purpose of removing her and her family to the place of his own residence in the county of Searcy. The deceased…
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