MITCHELL v. BISHOP

No. 5346.

435 S.W.2d 91 (1968)

Lonnie B. MITCHELL, Appellant, v. O. E. BISHOP, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied January 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McMath, Leatherman, Woods & Youngdahl, John P. Sizemore, Little Rock, and Gaughan, Laney, Barnes & Roberts, Camden, for appellant, Rafael Guzman, Fayetteville, of counsel.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Don Langston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


JONES, Justice.

This case presents an excellent example of the inadequacy of the judicial machinery in our dual court system for final disposition of a criminal case where a confession is used in evidence against the one who makes it, and under modern interpretation and concepts of the due process clauses of Amendments 5 and 14 of our Constitution. The question now before this court, and one which we anticipate will be here again, is whether a confession made by Lonnie...

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