Everett v. State
Decision Date | 10 May 1948 |
Docket Number | 4496 |
Citation | 210 S.W.2d 918,213 Ark. 470 |
Parties | Everett v. State |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; S. M. Bone, Judge.
Affirmed.
Fred M. Pickens, Fred M. Pickens, Jr., and Chas. F Cole, for appellant.
Guy E. Williams, Attorney General, and Oscar E Ellis, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at ten years in the State Penitentiary. The information charged that appellant murdered "Ralph Hedden by beating and kicking the said Ralph Hedden with his fists and feet," etc. From the judgment is this appeal.
The motion for a new trial contains twelve assignments of alleged errors. We consider them in the order presented.
Assignments 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10 and 12, in effect, challenge the sufficiency of the evidence.
At about one p. m. on Sunday, September 7, 1947, appellant, Shelby Everett, and seven or eight others, including Ralph Hedden, the victim of his assault, engaged in a game of dice or "shooting craps," as it is commonly called, in Sherrill's pasture near Mountain Gap, Independence county. During the progress of the game, a dispute arose between appellant and Hedden over a dollar wager and a fight resulted between them. Both parties had been drinking liquor and neither was armed.
An eyewitness, Henry Rowens, gave the following version of the encounter:
Dee Smart, who was present, testified: "
Hayden Sanders testified that as he was passing by on his horse he saw appellant running after Mr. Hedden, and quoting from his testimony:
Dr. John Adametz testified that he was a resident physician at the Baptist Hospital in Little Rock and had occasion to examine Mr. Ralph Hedden who was brought to the hospital following appellant's assault on Hedden:
Dr. W. R. Lee testified:
Dr Anderson Nettleship gave corroborative testimony and in addition testified: ...
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