Legal Opinion
Blanton v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 12, 1970No. 5448PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. Fred Jones, Justice.
Kenneth Ray Blanton was convicted of first degree murder in the Miller County Circuit Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has appealed to this court and has designated 18 points on which he relies for reversal. All of the points allege error in law, so we only state the facts necessary for consideration of the assigned errors in the order presented.
About 10 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, 1968, the nude body of Winn Smith was found by Sandy Carter and Don La Rue in the bathroom of his apartment in Texarkana, Arkansas. Smith’s bed was saturated with blood and a…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Fay v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Allison v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- United States Ex Rel. Smith v. BaldiCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1951
- Adams v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1928
- Penton v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1937
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3Cited by13 opinions
- People v. SirhanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1972
- Perry v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1973
- Venable v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
- Pace v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1979
- Roberts v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1973
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