Tillman v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Logan Circuit Court, Southern District; Jeptha H. Evans, Judge; 1. The photographs were not admissible in evidence. 91 Ark. 179; 69 N. E. 216; 9 Enc. of Ev. 780. 2. The exclusion of the testimony as to the lack of virtue of deceased was erroneous and prejudicial.
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Appeal from Logan Circuit Court, Southern District; Jeptha H. Evans, Judge; 1. The photographs were not admissible in evidence. 91 Ark. 179; 69 N. E. 216; 9 Enc. of Ev. 780. 2. The exclusion of the testimony as to the lack of virtue of deceased was erroneous and prejudicial. Any testimony tending to show that some other person may have committed the crime is admissible. 100 Ark. 301; 140 S. W. 13; Wharton on Homicide (2 ed.), § 602; 21 A. & E. Enc. 229; 58 S. W. 1018; 48 Id. 980. 3. The evidence tending to show Bolen’s connection with deceased and his motive for the crime were admissible. 113…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
The defendant, Arthur Tillman, appeals from a judgment of conviction for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed on March 10, 1913, by killing Amanda Stephens, a young woman about nineteen years of age.
Defendant and deceased were reared together in the same community in Delaware Township, Logan County, Arkansas. It was a thickly settled community around a postoffice or country village called Delaware, or Delaware Hall. They had known each other from childhood and were on intimate terms np to the time of the disappearance and death of deceased. The girl resided…
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