Hyde v. State

Reid, Chief Justice.

Carl Hyde was indicted on November 24, 1942, for murder in the killing of J. C. Metcalf, who was about sixty-five or seventy years of age, on November 7, 1942. After trials on November 25, 1942, and January 19, 1943, which had ended in mistrials because of the inability of the jury to agree upon a verdict, a third trial on January 21, 1943, resulted in a verdict of guilty, without recommendation. A motion for new trial was overruled, and the defendant excepted.

A number of witnesses testified, but only a generalized statement of the evidence of the actual occurrence under…