People v. Biddlecome

EMERSON, J.:

The defendant was indicted for tbe murder of one Charles Jensen, alleged to have been committed on the twenty-sixth, of November, 1879. ITe was convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and upon the recommendation of the jury, as provided in the statute, was sentenced to be imprisoned at bard labor in the penitentiary for life. He appeals to this court, upon various assignments of error, from tbe judgment and the older denying his motion for a new trial,

*210The deceased was last seen alive by several witnesses on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1879, in company with the defendant.…