State v. Poe

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted under an indictment charging him with an attempt to commit the crime of simple kidnapping and sentenced to serve fifteen months in the penitentiary. He has appealed from the conviction and sentence.

The defendant is urging on this appeal forty bills of exceptions taken by his counsel to the rulings of the trial judge during the course of the trial. A serious bill of exception urged by him was taken to the refusal of the trial judge to instruct the jury that a verdict of simple assault would be responsive to the offense charged in the indictment.

The…