NAIL v. STATE

No. 4937.

328 S.W.2d 836 (1959)

William Frank NAIL, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied December 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Harris Jones and Wilton E. Steed, Pine Bluff, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen, by Thorp Thomas and Ancil Reed, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.


HARRIS, Chief Justice.

William Frank Nail, appellant herein, was convicted of the crime of Murder in the First Degree, and his punishment fixed at death by electrocution. From the judgment so entered, comes this appeal. Numerous assignments of error are contained in appellant's motion for new trial, the first several dealing with the sufficiency of the evidence.

Proof reflected that Nail, James Moss, and James Leroy Montgomery, were convict trusties at the...

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