Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from St. Francis Circuit Court. H. N. Hutton, Judge. I. The indictment is uncertain. Sand. & H. Dig., sec. 2077; 27 Ark. 493; 26 id. 323; 34 id. 265; 54 id. 549. 2'. It was error to allow the state to challenge peremptorily, without showing cause, the jurors McDaniel and Casteel after they had been accepted. Sand. & H. Dig., secs. 2203, 2213; 32 N. E. Rep. 1105; 137 N. Y. 29; 15 S. E. Rep. 556; 19 S. E. Rep. 797; 58 Ark. 361; 4 S. W.- Rep. 86; 12 So. Rep. 582; 12 So.
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Appeal from St. Francis Circuit Court. H. N. Hutton, Judge. I. The indictment is uncertain. Sand. & H. Dig., sec. 2077; 27 Ark. 493; 26 id. 323; 34 id. 265; 54 id. 549. 2'. It was error to allow the state to challenge peremptorily, without showing cause, the jurors McDaniel and Casteel after they had been accepted. Sand. & H. Dig., secs. 2203, 2213; 32 N. E. Rep. 1105; 137 N. Y. 29; 15 S. E. Rep. 556; 19 S. E. Rep. 797; 58 Ark. 361; 4 S. W.- Rep. 86; 12 So. Rep. 582; 12 So. Rep. 688; 18 Can. S. C. 407; 7 So. Rep. 337; 10 At. Rep. 794. 3. The confessions of defendant were not admissi- ■ ble.…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
This is an indictment for murder in the first degree, found by the grand jury at the March term, 1896, of the St. Francis circuit court, and tried and determined at the September term, 1896. The trial resulted in the conviction of the defendant of murder in the first degree as charged, and judgment, and in due course defendant appealed. To the indictment defendant interposed a demurrer, and the same was overruled by the court, and exceptions were taken and noted.
The crime was committed in the night of the 23d October, 1895, at the home of the deceased, Grant McGowan, and as to the…
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