Rhodes v. State

OPINION ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

[Filed January 20, 1930.] On change of venue to the Gibson Circuit Court from the Knox Circuit Court, appellant was tried before a jury and a verdict returned finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the penalty at death. Judgment and sentence in accordance with the verdict. On appeal to this court, he has assigned as error the overruling of his motion for a new trial, wherein error is predicated on the court's refusal to give to the jury certain of his tendered instructions; remarks of the trial court during the trial in the…