Boone v. State

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

On an information charging the crime of murder in the first degree, appellant, Rogers Boone, a Negro, was found guilty of the murder of M. R. Hamm, a white man 76 years of age, and his punishment fixed at death. This appeal followed.

For reversal appellant relies on the following points: “(1) The court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the information. (2) The conduct of the trial court in communicating with the jury by entering the jury room without the defendant or his counsel was improper, and constitutes reversible error. (3) The alleged…