Bassett v. State

Plaintiffs in error were jointly indicted for murder ■ in the first degree and were convicted of murder in the ¡second degree. From the judgment of the court sentencing the accused to the penitentiary they sued out writ of error.

The first error assigned is that the record fails to show the accused were present during the entire trial, or that they were arraigned upon the indictment against them or plead thereto. The record shows that on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1901, a day of the Spring term of ' the court that year, an indictment for murder in the-first degree was properly returned by…