Murray v. State

Almand, Justice.

J. C. Murray, under an indictment charging him with the murder of M. D. Abbott, by shooting him with a shotgun, was found guilty without a recommendation of mercy, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial upon the general and special grounds was denied, and he now seeks a review of this judgment.

Special ground one assigns as error the court’s failure to define manslaughter in its charge to the jury. The evidence on behalf of the State shows that the homicide was premeditated murder. The defendant having introduced no evidence, and there being…