Brown v. State

Appellant, charged by information with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting his wife, Bertha Brown, to death, was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter. He seeks to reverse the judgment of the circuit court sentencing him, in accordance with the verdict, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

For grounds of reversal appellant argues: I. That the lower court erred in overruling his motion for continuance ; II. That the lower court should have sustained appellant’s oral motion praying that the jury be discharged and a…