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LEGGETT v. STATE

No. 4959.

328 S.W.2d 250 (1959)

Emmett Earl LEGGETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Coffelt, Little Rock, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., by Thorp Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

HOLT, Justice.

Appellant, Emmett Earl Leggett, was on January 25, 1956, charged by information with the crime of first degree murder, and on the same day he was also charged by separate informations with the crimes of raping two different girls. On June 4, 1956, he was tried on the first degree murder charge and the jury returned a verdict of guilty of first degree murder as charged. The trial court thereupon sentenced Leggett to death in the electric chair and this...

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