State v. Ashley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant was indicted for murder,"tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung. He has appealed. He asks a setting aside of the verdict and judgment on the ground that the court erroneously refused to charge the jury as requested by him in *1037three special charges submitted to him, and on the ground that the record does not show that the indictment was found by the grand jury and returned into and presented by them in open court. The last objection urged is presented under an assignment of error — the former in a bill of exception…