Shelton v. State

The single question which has been presented to this court is that of the competency of the evidence of Bivens and Jones relative to the former conviction of Shelton for the commission of one crime, his indictment for the commission of another crime, and the fact that at the time of the killing in the present case he was a fugitive from justice. No question is made by counsel for the accused that the court did not properly instruct the jury in respect to the limitation of the evidence, but it is urged that the evidence was incompetent and so prejudicial in its effect that the limitation upon…