Palmer v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder with malice aforethought, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of ninety-nine years.

The record is very voluminous containing sixty-one bills of exception besides a great number of objections to the court’s charge. To discuss all of them would unnecessarily lengthen this opinion.

Appellant’s first complaint is that the court denied him his legal right to a special venire from which to select a jury to try him and that he was not accorded his legal right to one day’s service of a copy of a special…