Combs v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Garland Circuit Cou|rt sentencing the appellant .jo imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of five years. We find that there are some errors in the record for which the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial. We will therefore .discuss only these errors and such other grounds of appellant’s motion for a new trial as we deem necessary to properly guide the court on issues that may likely he raised at another trial.

The indictment is valid, and, in approved form, charged the appellant with the crime of murder in the…