State v. Jenkins

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Joseph Oliver Jenkins, having been convicted on an indictment charging him with the murder of August P. During 1 and sentenced to death in the electric chair, prosecutes this appeal relying for a reversal of his conviction on nine out of ten bills of exceptions reserved during the proceedings in the court below. 2

The first bill of exceptions, relied upon by appellant, was taken to the ruling of the trial judge, 3 who, at the termination of a lunacy hearing, adjudged the defendant presently sane and thus able to understand the proceedings against him and…