{ "id": 1464466, "name": "Boyd v. State", "name_abbreviation": "Boyd v. State", "decision_date": "1949-04-18", "docket_number": "4557", "first_page": "156", "last_page": "159", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "215 Ark. 156" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "219 S.W.2d 623" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "233 S. W. 917", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "149 Ark. 609", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 8722059 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/149/0609-01" ] }, { "cite": "243 S. W. 1063", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "155 Ark. 68", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1360457 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/155/0068-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 376, "char_count": 6049, "ocr_confidence": 0.495, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.2197150142129573e-07, "percentile": 0.5979003022956164 }, "sha256": "dc51ef5eecb7ce268668ba8a31431a8807021e8ae805e77900d002090e106ea1", "simhash": "1:a32780baeb551f57", "word_count": 1032 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T14:42:13.131733+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Boyd v. State." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Holt, J.\nNovember 16, 1948, appellant, Emma Boyd, a Negro woman, was tried on an indictment charging her with the crime of receiving stolen goods. The jury failed to agree, a mistrial was declared, and thereafter on December 1st, she was again placed on trial, which resulted in her conviction and a prison term of eighteen months in the Penitentiary imposed.\nFrom the judgment is this appeal.\nFor reversal, appellant presents in her motion for a new trial twenty-one assignments of alleged errors. While she argues but'two of her assignments, this being a felony case, she waives none of her alleged errors by not arguing them here.\nBriefly, the evidence shows that appellant operated a cafe and sold beer. Percy Alsup, a convict on parole, was employed by the Fordyce Country Club as caretaker, after having served a part of a ten-year term in the state penitentiary. Following his parole, he married appellant\u2019s cousin, Ozaree Grimes. It was undisputed that Percy stole some chairs, silverware and dishes, the property of the Country Club, of the value of approximately $75, some of which he sold to appellant. Alsup testified that appellant and his wife, Ozaree, were with him at the time of the theft, that appellant knew the property was stolen and aided and abetted him, that Ozaree asked him not to take the' property and warned that he would get in trouble.\nAided by a search warrant, an officer went to appellant\u2019s cafe and when he informed her of his mission, she readily produced from under the counter some dishes and some pieces of silverware. She also produced four chairs, but denied knowing that any of the property had been stolen.\nIn these circumstances, all conceded that Percy was an accomplice, but whether Ozaree was also an accomplice was a question that should have been submitted to the jury.\nUnder our statute, Ark. Stat., (1947), \u00a7 43-2116, an accused may not be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice. The testimony of Ozaree, which tended to corroborate that of her husband, was material, and appellant was entitled to have the jury instructed substantially in the language of the statute, supra, had she so requested (Miller v. State, 155 Ark. 68, 243 S. W. 1063), and she was also, upon request, entitled to an instruction defining the term of \u201caccomplice.\u201d See Simon v. State, 149 Ark. 609, 233 S. W. 917, for the definition.\nIn the present case, it is doubtful if there was any substantial evidence that tended to corroborate Percy and Ozaree, had the jury, under proper requested instructions, found that Ozaree was also an accomplice. She was a State witness and, in the circumstances, appellant was entitled to cross-examine her thoroughly, within reasonable bounds, on all material matters. The court denied appellant this privilege and in so doing, there was abuse of discretion.\nAppellant\u2019s sixth assignment provides: \u201cThe court erred in not permitting defendant to prove that Ozaree Alsup would testify to the jury that \u2018since she has been out of jail she has been in a very nervous condition\u2019 and said, \u2018Don\u2019t let the Sheriff and Percy Alsup get me.\u2019 Counsel for defendant stating, \u2018That is a circumstance I want to get before the jury and argue to the jury.\u2019 I would like to cross-examine her on whether or not the Sheriff possibly told her, \u2018Now you get in and help me send Emma Boyd to the penitentiary and yon will not have to be tried,\u2019 defendant saving exceptions.\u201d\nIn this connection, the record reflects: \u201cBy the Court: Let the record show that E. B. Kimpel, Jr., rep- \u2022 resents the defendant, with the other counsel, and that be especially represents the witness, Ozaree Alsup, and that the Court has directed that either side may talk to any witness and Mr. Kimpel made his objections and exceptions at the time of the ruling. On the basis of this, Mr. Kimpel is excluded from the Sheriff\u2019s office during the questioning of his client, Ozaree Alsup, by the Prosecuting Attorney before the trial, over Mr. Kimpel\u2019s objections and exceptions. . . . Whereupon, the State presents the following witnesses before the Court and the jury.\u201d\nAmong these witnesses, as noted, was Ozaree. She was at the time charged with the same offense, lodged against Percy, and was free on bond.\n\u201cBy the Court: Let the record show that her testimony shows and clearly exonerates her of any part of this crime and this statement is made outside of the hearing of the jury and the Court is convinced she had nothing to do with this crime and is not guilty of any part of this crime; that she merely told what happened- and over her protest the theft was committed; and that she had not testified to anything that would incriminate her at all whatsoever and her statement shall never be used in any prosecution in regard to this thing against her.\n\u201cObjection overruled over the objections and exceptions of the witness and defendant.\n\u201cWhereupon, at the request of counsel for defendant, the Court retires to Chambers and the following proceedings are had: By Mr. Sparks: Ozaree Alsup will testify that since she has been out of jail that she has been in a very nervous condition and made the statement: \u201cDon\u2019t let the Sheriff and Percy get me.\u2019 That is a circumstance I want to get before the jury, argue to the jury, the circumstance that she was possibly \u2014 I would have liked to cross-examine her. ' The Sheriff probably told her, \u2018Now you get in and help me send Emma Boyd to the penitentiary and you will not have to be tried.\u2019\n\u201cThe Court refuses to permit counsel for defendant to cross-examine the witness, Ozaree Alsup, on this point, over the objections and exceptions of the defendant. \u2019 \u2019\nAs indicated, we think the court erred in denying appellant the right to cross-examine Ozaree, in the manner requested.\nAccordingly, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.", "type": "majority", "author": "Holt, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "R. D. Wynne and Robert Sparks, for appellant.", "Ike Murry, Attorney General and Arnold Adams, Assistant Attorney General,- for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Boyd v. State.\n4557\n219 S. W. 2d 623\nOpinion delivered April 18, 1949.\nR. D. Wynne and Robert Sparks, for appellant.\nIke Murry, Attorney General and Arnold Adams, Assistant Attorney General,- for appellee." }, "file_name": "0156-01", "first_page_order": 178, "last_page_order": 181 }