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MURPHY v. STATE

No. 5490.

454 S.W.2d 302 (1970)

Royce Van MURPHY, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 18, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff, for appellant.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Mike Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

HOLT, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of the crime of first degree murder as alleged by an information and assessed his punishment as death in the electric chair.

On appeal the appellant first contends for reversal of the judgment on that verdict that the evidence is insufficient to support the jury's verdict. We cannot agree. The appellant, an inmate of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, admittedly killed...

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