Simmons v. State

Three appeals have heretofore been granted appellant, and this is his fourth. 15 So.2d 287; 16 So.2d 617, and17 So.2d 798, 799. The present episode is that when as a result of his next previous appeal he was brought before the circuit court in term time for the fixing of another date for the execution, he presented, in a manner unobjectionable as to form, a statement of two assigned reasons why the execution should not be ordered, these grounds being directed towards the validity of the original trial and sentence. He alleges that (1) he was put to trial, when, on account of a wound…