State v. Hurst

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on March 21, 1899, and on the following day was sentenced to suffer the death penalty. A motion for a new trial was denied on June 10, 1899. The appeal is from the judgment and the order denying a new trial.

The grounds relied upon for a reversal of the judgment and order are insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, errors of the trial court in rulings upon the admission and *486exclusion of evidence and in a refusal to properly instruct the jury, and misconduct of the counsel for the state which was prejudicial to the…