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LEGGETT v. STATE

No. 4960.

328 S.W.2d 252 (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.

McFADDIN, Justice.

This is another chapter in the litigation involving Emmett Earl Leggett, convicted in the Pulaski Circuit Court in 1956 for the murder of Joe King, and sentenced to death.

The judgment in the murder case was affirmed by this Court on February 18, 1957. See Leggett v. State, 227 Ark. 393, 299 S.W.2d 59, and hereinafter referred to as the "first case". Leggett later filed in the Pulaski Circuit Court a proceeding...

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