Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Nevada Circuit Court; George B. Haynie, Judge; STATEMENT 0E EAOTS. George Brown was indicted, tried before a jury, and convicted of the crime of robbery. The facts as shown by the State briefly stated are as follows: Ben Baker lived in Nevada County, Arkansas, about eleven and a half miles from Hope, Arkansas.
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Appeal from Nevada Circuit Court; George B. Haynie, Judge; STATEMENT 0E EAOTS. George Brown was indicted, tried before a jury, and convicted of the crime of robbery. The facts as shown by the State briefly stated are as follows: Ben Baker lived in Nevada County, Arkansas, about eleven and a half miles from Hope, Arkansas. He is ¡a single man and his aged mother lives with him, and they lived there on November 23,1919. On Sunday night, November 23, 1919, two men went into Baker ’s house and threw their guns on Baker and his mother and then tied them. They told them that they knew that Baker…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). Harry Simmons made a confession and was a witness for the State. According to his testimony, Arthur Neal, Joe Ed Smith, George Brown and himself robbed Ben Baker and his mother at the house of the former in Nevada County, Arkansas. He described in detail how the robbery was committed. He was an accomplice of the defendant, and under our statute the latter cannot be convicted unless the testimony of the accomplice is corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely…
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