Watson v. State

•Biddle, J.

The appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, committed in killing Ezra Compton by shooting him, has been tried by a jury and found guilty, as charged, and is now under the sentence of the law to suffer death.

He appeals to this court, and his counsel have prepared and presented for our consideration three questions:

*5491. On the fourth day of the term of court at which the appellant was tried, the court, having no further need of a petit jury until the fourteenth day of the term, over the objection of the appellant, discharged the jury until said fourteenth day, but excused…