BENNETT v. STATE

No. CR 73-142.

503 S.W.2d 908 (1974)

George BENNETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Hall, Public Defender, Little Rock, for appellant.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., by O. H. Hargraves, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

In appealing from a conviction and 21-year sentence for murder in the second degree, the appellant contends only that the State should not have been allowed to introduce a photograph of the decedent's face, taken by the doctor who performed an autopsy to establish the cause of death. The photograph was clearly relevant. The doctor could not positively identify the decedent by name; so the photograph was used to enable another witness to...

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