Maples v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
EBOM GILES. Circuit Court, August Term, 1871. ¥m. P. Mab-TIN, J. in addition to the points noticed by the Court, objected that the bill of exceptions stated, that the judge in his charge read to the jury sec. 4626 of the Code, but did not set it out in his charge.
1Opinion of the CourtFkeemAN, J.
The prisoner was indicted in the Circuit Court of Giles county, for an attempt to commit the crime of murder in the first degree, on Richard Allen, by administering “a certain deadly poison called strychnine.”
He was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years; and brings his ease to this court by appeal, in the nature of a writ of error.
The first objection relied on is, that the indictment is not shown to have been returned into open Court.
The answer to this is, that it does appear that “the grand jurors aforesaid returned into court an indictment against Philip Maples for an…
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