State v. King

The opinion of the. court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The appellant was convicted of the murder of one William Sutton. The abstract he presents is very incomplete and inadequate^ but there is a statement that the appellant is without means and that his counsel was obliged to pay the expense of the appeal, and for that reason did not abstract all the evidence or all the proceedings. We are not informed as to the degree of murder of which defendant was convicted; and only fragmentary and unrelated portions of the evidence are furnished, although there is a contention that the evidence is…