Pickett v. State

Appellant, Ben Pickett, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Lauderdale county of the crime of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal. Appellant assigns as errors thirty-eight different acts of the trial court, and argues most of them. As we view, it, the legal principles involved are well settled in this state. If there be any difficulty in the determination of the questions involved, it consists, not in deciding the legal principles, but in the application of undisputed legal principles to the facts of the case.

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