Jones v. State

Appellant was tried under an indictment which charged that, with malice aforethought and after deliberation and premeditation, he had shot and killed one George Miller. The jury returned the f ollowing verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant, A. T. Jones, guilty as charged in the indictment and fix his punishment at death-in the electric chair.” Upon this verdict appellant was sentenced to death, and from that judgment is this appeal.

For the reversal of this judgment it is strongly urged that the court erred in refusing to give appellant’s counsel a reasonable opportunity to study and…