Vaughn v. State

KNIGHT, Justice.

The appellant was indicted by a grand jury of Mobile county, at its October, 1936, sitting, for the offense of murder in the first degree.

Upon his trial on this indictment, the appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death by electrocution. From this judgment and sentence the appellant brings this appeal.

For this same offense, the appellant had been previously indicted by a grand jury of said county, and upon trial under said indictment the appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment was then fixed at…