State v. Jordan

By the indictment appellant and Henry Page were jointly charged with having killed Michael Finn on May 23, 1921. Page pleaded guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to ten years ’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was not apprehended until in 1922. He pleaded not guilty, and, subsequently, was permitted to withdraw that plea and file a “ motion to dismiss and discharge the jury panel selected, listed and drawn and impaneled for the trial” of the cause. This motion was overruled and, on second arraignment, appellant again pleaded not guilty. A trial of…