The courier-index., 1920-10-15
Cot. c. ". Murphy
 Dies at Hospital

Ge0fRe W. MuI piAS3 wv ANA of the Arkansas bar and one ot the Stota,e Heading criminal lawyers, died at St. Luke's hospital yesCer- day afternoon at l o'clock aleer short illness. IT..
 Col. Murphy was born near Hunt ington, Carroll county, leillesse, Jan. 8, 1841, and lived there unLll May 1861, when he enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War m Che first Confederate company. orgahl1eu in his county. The organization pc came Company C 22 Tennessee. US first engagement was at beihoht' Mo, where the Federal troops were defeated, and the regiment also was at Shiloh.
 Col. Murphy was wounded slightly at the battle of Shiloh. Later the organization skirmished around Cor inth until the latter part of the sum- mer whe nit went to Knoxville, to join a concentration of troops under Gen. K. K. Smith, after which the forces advanced into Kentucky ana took part in the battle of Richmond, Ky., and Perryville, Ky Later the regiment fell back into Tennesse ana went into camp at Murphreesporo, remaining there until the battle of Murphreesboro, in which Col. NUT phy was wounded in the right shoul- der. wound from which he never entirely recovered.
 With Forrest Cavalry
 After several months in hos nital he was disqualified for in- fantry service and on request was transferred in 1864 to Forests cav airy. He took part in the engage ments at Bryce's Crossroads and at Harrisburg. and in the latter action was wounded in the left arm, in the right thumb and in the right leg, which disqualified him permanently for active service, but he remained with the Confederate forces until the end of the war. In the fall of 1865 he rode horseback from Mem phis to Hamburg, Ark, spending one night near Memphis at the home of Gen. Forests mother
 He had begun the study of law while convalescing from his wounds ard at Hamburg continued ms stud- ies asl the office of W. D. Moore. He WAS admitted to the bar at Warren in September, 1866, and formed a partnership with MT. Moore, which continued for a year, when he en- tered the practice alone, remaining in Hamburg until 1877, when he moved to Hot Springs and formed another partnership with the late Judge James B. Wood, father of Circuit Judge Scott Wood of Hot Springs. He also practiced with k. W. Rector. ,o
 He came to Little Rock in 1890 and formed a firm with the late :. Judge T. B. Martin, which continued surti Judge Martin became chancel- Der. after which he was associated as partner with T. M. Mehaffy in the firm of Murphy & Mehaffy, which was dissolved upon his elec- tion as attorney general Col. NUT phy was attorney general from l9Ol to 1905 and a candidate for gover- nor on the Progressive party ticket in 1912.
 In a firm later formed he was associated with w. NJ. Lewis and Charles T. Coleman. This firm dis solved in 1911, and in 1912 he form ed a partnership with E. L. McHaney NJ. K. Dunaway entered the partner shin in August, 1920, and the firm of Murphy, McHaney 6 Dunaway continued until the death of the se- nior partner
 Last Case in Court
 Col. Murphy's last appearance in court was in defense. of Clay Fer g-uson in First Division Circuit Court Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
 Judge Wade in commenting upon Col. MurphY's defense of Ferguson yesterday said: His body was fec ble. but his mind was as brilliant as ever. In his argument to the jury he took up one at time each badge of guilt relied on by the state and artfully contended that each one was ia reality evidence of his clients innocense. More than any lawyer ! ever knew Colonel Murphy was able to concentrate on circumstan- tial evidence apparently so insigni- fieant as to be overlooked by others, a flood of light so strong as to com pei conviction. His originality in presenting to jury even seeming crudeness was often intensely dra- natic. This with his wonderful reasoning faculties made him in-
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