State ex rel. Barfield v. Maiden

The relator in this case was tried at the October term, 1902, of the circuit court of Lauderdale county, and found guilty of murder, in the second degree, of one Hammond, and his punishment was fixed at 20 years’ confinement in the State penitentiary. A motion for a new trial being overruled, an appeal was prayed and granted to this court.

The relator filed his present petition asking this court to grant him its writ of mandamus requiring the Honorable R. E. Maiden, the judge who presided at the trial of the cause, to authenticate a draft for a bill of exceptions which accompanies the petition…