Sherman v. State

Henry Sherman was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. The jury fixed the penalty of death. From a judgment on the verdict the defendant prosecutes error.

The case as now briefed and argued orally presents unusual features in this: While counsel for the defendant tried the case well and preserved his record of objections to evidence, incorporated all legal exceptions in the motion for a new trial, set them forth in his petition in error and duly grouped them in his assignment of errors in his brief, yet none of these are authoritatively invoked save that the .judgment is…