Davis v. State

The appellant was convicted on an indictment which charged him with the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing- of one Horace Harper. The report of the grand jury which returned the indictment against the appellant recited that it had examined into two cases very thoroughly, and had returned indictments against both, charging them with murder in the first degree; that, from all the evidence before them, they confidently felt that conviction ought to follow and the death penalty imposed. Upon the filing of this report the court ordered that the words “and the déath penalty imposed”…