Bivins v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of murder in the first degree, in the Circuit Court for Clay County, and on recommendation to mercy by the jury was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in the State penitentiary. .

The defendant Avas- indicted in October, 1914, for the murder of William Mitchell, at Middleburg in June of that year, and Avas brought to trial in December, on that indictment.

The evidence in the case Avas circumstantial in character, and is sufficient to support the verdict at which the jury arrived. . The place at which the…