CARSON v. STATE

No. 4631.

232 S.W.2d 835 (1950)

CARSON v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 2, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude F. Cooper, Blytheville, for appellant.

Ike Murry, Atty. Gen., Arnold Adams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


DUNAWAY, Justice.

Appellant, Wheeler Carson, questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a jury verdict finding him guilty of second degree murder and fixing his punishment at twenty-one years in the penitentiary.

According to the witnesses on behalf of the State, these are the events that transpired prior to the fatal stabbing of the deceased, Chester Jones, by the appellant on the night of December 12, 1949:

About six o'clock in the evening...

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