State v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This was an information against the defendant, charging him with murder in the first degree. Upon the trial a verdict was rendered in accordance with the charge. Judgment was entered upon the verdict, from which judgment an appeal is taken, seeking a reversal upon several errors assigned.

The first error assigned is a want of jurisdiction in the trial judge. It is conceded that Judge J. Z. Moore, who tried this case, is not one of the superior judges elected for the county of King, where the cause was tried and which was the home of the…