HOUSE v. STATE

No. 4943.

324 S.W.2d 112 (1959)

J. T. HOUSE, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Schieffler, West Helena, and Charles B. Roscopf, Helena, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., by Bill J. Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to death. For a reversal he questions the sufficiency of the evidence and a number of the trial court's rulings.

House, a man of twenty-four, and the decedent, Ernestine Coley, a girl of nineteen, were residents of Phillips county. On the afternoon of July 26, 1958, the two met on the street in the community of Oneida, and the girl solicited a ride into...

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