Phillips v. State

J. Q. Phillips was tried under an indictment charging him with the murder of Walter A. Fendt on the 5th day of May, 1918. Upon the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and to this judgment he excepted.

1. During the progress of the trial, while a witness for the State was on the stand, counsel for the State, addressing the witness, said: “After you vacated the house in which the defendant lived at the time Mr. Fendt was shot, state whether or not any inquiry was made of you as to the right of Fendt…