McNutt v. State

Plaintiff in error, Eugene C. McNutt, alias Earl Mason, was convicted of murder for having shot and killed Ben Coleman, on or about the 16th day of September, 1921, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment for life at hard labor. From the judgment rendered on the verdict he appealed by filing in this court on June 15, 1922, a petition in error with ease-made.

The Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that plaintiff in error has become a fugitive from justice.

Attached to said motion is the affidavit of W. C. Key, warden of the state penitentiary at…