Eason v. State

The defendant was convicted in the criminal court of Memphis of the murder of one Ed. Lyles. The case was before us at last term, reversed, and sent back for a new trial. He has again been convicted of murder’ in the first degree, the jury making no recommendation for mercy to the court, as in the former verdict.

Several questions are urged in behalf of the prisoner at the bar for reversal of the judgment. It appears from the record that the prisoner was convicted in June, being the May Term of the court, 1872, and regularly sentenced to be hung. After motions in arrest of judgment and for new…