BROCKWELL v. STATE

No. CR 76-32.

545 S.W.2d 60 (1976)

Dewey BROCKWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas. In Banc.

December 20, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Gibson, Jr., Dermott, for appellant.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen. by Jackson Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


FOGLEMAN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of second degree murder for the killing of his son-in-law, Walter Griffin, by shooting him with a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot. Brockwell and his wife lived next door to their daughter and son-in-law in McGehee. The killing took place as Griffin approached the front door of the Brockwell house, where his wife, Goldie Griffin, had gone with her mother on the preceding day. Goldie Griffin was ill at the time and died...

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