Jackson v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree, and given a life sentence in the penitentiary.

The record contains about 300 pages of typewritten matter. Many questions are raised, and some of them presented by a brief for the appellant. It will be unnecessary for us to notice all of these various questions. Some of them, doubtless, will not occur upon another trial. We will, therefore, discuss and decide only such as we regard as material.

1. The first question raised is on motion to quash the indictment, claiming that as the appellant was a negro, he…