State v. Kenyon

* NOTE: Opinion filed at May Term, 1938, August 17, 1938; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled December 20, 1938; motion to transfer to Court en Banc filed; motion overruled at September Term, February 21, 1939. The appellant, twenty years of age, was convicted of murder in the first degree, the death penalty being inflicted by the jury, in the Circuit Court of Oregon County on change of venue from Howell County, for shooting and killing Dr. J.C.B. Davis while kidnaping him in the latter county on January 26, 1937. There were five assignments of error in his motion for new trial in…