Cook v. Territory

The plaintiff in error was indicted on December 3,1883, in the district court of Albany county, for the killing of James Blount. Trial was had upon the indictment, resulting in a verdict of guilty. The court below overruled the motion for a new trial, and pronounced judgment and sentence of death upon the verdict. The evidence is all in the record by bill of exceptions. The case is prosecuted here by petition in error. The petition in error makes 13 assignments of error, as follows:

“(1) That the court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant herein to quash the indictment in this cause…