Bigham v. State

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury to suffer death. The homicide was committed by defendant at the place of operation of an illicit distillery. The deceased was the sheriff, and, at the time of his death, was of a posse of state and federal officials seeking to locate such plant and to arrest those who were operating it, one of whom was the defendant.

The due preliminary orders, of arraignment, for venire, and setting a day for defendant’s trial are disclosed by tbe record; so also a proper verdict ascertaining defendant’s guilt of…