Wright v. State

On the second of November, 1878, Albert Wright was indicted for murder, in the circuit court of Garland county. He was tried in February, 1880, on plea of not guilty, the jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree, aud fixed bis punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for seventeen years. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and bill of exceptions taken. He was sentenced in accordance with the verdict, and prayed an appeal, which was allowed by one of the judges of this court.

i. jUET. oveiuTini ^enTíred

I. The twelfth assignment in the motion for anew trial is, that the…