Knox v. State

The accused was tried and convicted in Franklin superior court, on an indictment charging him with the offense of murder. He was found guilty, with a recommendation to life imprisonment; whereupon he moved for a new trial, and excepts to the judgment of the court overruling the same.

1. One ground in the motion for a new trial is that the court erred, after the accused had made his regular statement to the jury in his defense on the trial and closed, in refusing to let him go back upon the stand the second time, to rebut the testimony of a witness who swore, after the State had closed and…