Francis v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Represented by retained counsel below and here, Francis has duly perfected an appeal in the nature of a writ of error to this Court challenging the validity of his second degree murder conviction and 10-to-15-year penitentiary sentence adjudged by the Criminal Court of Bradley County where he was tried upon an indictment charging him with the first degree murder of Kenneth L. Wright.

By his first two Assignments of Error here the defendant (a Negro) reasserts the contention made in his motion for a new trial that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to quash the…