State v. Miller

The gravity of the judgment pronounced has called for a close and careful scrutiny of the entire record, to the end that the prisoner’s exceptions be judicially determined and his legal rights fully protected.. Such inspection we have endeavored to bestow, and have been unable to discover in the trial any error that will warrant referring the ease to another jury or interfering with the judgment of the court.

The circumstances attending the homicide are free from complication. The prisoner was driving his wagon on the highway; he was overtaken, or met, by the deceased and charged with larceny;…