Hamby v. People

There having been considerable delay in the disposition of this cause here, fairness justifies the statement that it only came within the individual responsibility of the present Chief Justice a short time ago and was assigned to the writer May 1 last. ■

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and, in conformity with the jury’s action, was sentenced to life imprisonment. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ and assigns twenty-four alleged errors. Many of these are so wholly unsupported as to require no notice. The…