Wright v. State

This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Clay County. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plaintiff in error, Ed Wright, as defendant, and defendant in error as the State.

Defendant was indicted at the February 1963 Term of the Criminal Court of Clay County, for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have occurred on or about November 17, 1962.

At the first setting of the cause the case was continued and, on application of the defendant, set for trial at the June, 1963" Term of Court. Defendant was on bond. Between the time of the…