Pitman v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Sebastian Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Wilson, Circuit Judge. As a general rule threats and hostile demonstrations unknown to defendant before the killing, are inadmissible in his defence. This rule, however, is not universal, and the facts in this case bring it within the recognized exceptions supported by the cases of State vs. Goodrich 19 Verm.
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Error to Sebastian Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Wilson, Circuit Judge. As a general rule threats and hostile demonstrations unknown to defendant before the killing, are inadmissible in his defence. This rule, however, is not universal, and the facts in this case bring it within the recognized exceptions supported by the cases of State vs. Goodrich 19 Verm. R. 116; Campbell vs. The People 16 111. jR. 17; Keene vs. The State 8 Yerger 194. Threats uncommunicated to the defendant are not admissible in evidence in his defence. Coker vs. The State 20 Ark. 55 ; Atkins vs. The State 16 Ark. 584.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
Jacob Pitman was convicted in the Sebastian circuit court on an indictment for murdering Blake Thompson, and sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years. A new trial was refused him and he appealed. His counsel insist that the judgment should be reversed, because of the exclusion of the testimony of Weir and Knowles; and this is the only question presented by the record that need be noticed.
ía «order to understand the materiality and relevancy of the facte proposed to he proven by these witnesses, it is necessary to state the substance of the testimony introduced npon the «trial.
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