State v. Wilson

HIGGINS', Justice.

This is an appeal from a verdict of a jury finding the defendant guilty of murder and a sentence by the court condemning him to death by hanging.

Six bills of exceptions were reserved in behalf of the defendant. The first bill was reserved to the trial judge’s refusal to grant a motion for a continuance. The relevant facts in connection therewith are as follows:

On July 21, 1934, defendant, a negro man, was arrested for shooting and killing a deputy sheriff, a white .man, who had gone to defendant’s home in the morning, to arrest him, without a warrant, for failure to comply…