State v. Barnes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

W'ATKINS, J.

The defendants, having been indicted for murder, prosecute this appeal from an unqualified verdict of guilty, without capital punishment, and a judgment sentencing them to lifetime imprisonment.

There are four bills of exception in the record upon which they rely for a reversal of that judgment.

I

The first bill of exceptions relates to certain alleged improper conduct on the part of the trial judge, it being charged that he made certain remarks to the defendants’ attorney and certain comments upon the evidence, both of which had a tendency to…