Halfrich v. State

In this case plaintiff in error was indicted charged with the offense of murder in the first degree and convicted of that offense by a jury with recommendation to mercy.

Counsel presents five questions to us:

The first of these questions challenges the procedure by which the defendant in the court below was placed on trial. The record shows that on the 13th of October, 1934, the following proceedings were had:

“The State Attorney and the defendant in person and represented by Hon. C. E. Farrington being present in open court, thereupon the defendant was duly arraigned and plead ‘Not Guilty.’ It…