Robertson v. Commonwealth

William Robertson, the plaintiff in error, was indicted at . the February term of the county court of Franklin county of the murder of Jerry Barbour, and he was tried upon the said indictment at the December term, 1892, of the said court, and was found guilty by the jury of murder in the-first degree ; and on the 19th day of December, 1892, he-was sentenced by the said court to be hanged by the neck until he is dead. To this judgment he petitioned the circuit court of Franklin county for a writ of error, upon the exhibition, as a part of his said petition, of a transcript of the record of the…