GRAHAM v. STATE

No. 4775.

271 S.W.2d 614 (1954)

Charlie GRAHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot Field, Jr., and W. S. Atkins, Hope, for appellant.

Tom Gentry, Atty. Gen., Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.

Information charged Charlie Graham with having feloniously shot L. C. Smith with the intention of killing him. He has appealed from a six-year penitentiary sentence.

The evidence is circumstantial. Smith had lived in Hope four or five years. An inference runs through some of the testimony that he had "turned Graham in" on a whiskey charge. But Smith denied at trial that he knew who shot him; nor did he remember having told officers...

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