Walker v. State

The appellee was indicted for, and convicted of, murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. Many exceptions are taken to.the proceedings in the court below, a portion of which are predicated upon matters set forth in a voluminous bill of exceptions. It will be necessary to mention only a few of the errors assigned and propositions discussed.

The appellee was a prisoner confined in jail, and was entitled to have delivered to him, one entire day before the trial, a copy of the indictment, and a list of the names of the persons summoned (seventy-five in number including the regular…