Robinson v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted at the Fall Term of the Circuit Court, held in and for the county of Suwannee, in the year 1877, for the murder of one Henry Harrison. The record shows that he was arraigned and plead not guilty. The trial before a jury was commenced on the 4th day of February, 1878, and such proceedings were had that on the 8th day of February the jury found the plaintiff in error guilty of murder in the first degree.

The counsel for the prisoner then made a motion for a new trial upon several grounds of alleged error in the progress of the cause, as well as upon the ground…