STEVENSON v. STATE

No. 5075.

370 S.W.2d 445 (1963)

B. C. STEVENSON, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil R. Moncrief and John W. Moncrief, Stuttgart, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., by Leslie Evitt, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


ROBINSON, Justice.

Appellant, B. C. Stevenson, Jr., was charged in the Monroe Circuit Court with murder in the first degree in the killing of Curtis Diamond. Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 21 years in the penitentiary. He has appealed.

There is no question about the killing, and there is no doubt about the evidence being sufficient to sustain the verdict. The appellant relied on the theory of self defense as justification...

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