Edmonds v. State

Thomas Edmonds was indicted in the circuit court of Johnson county for murder. On his application, the venue was changed to the circuit court of Franklin county, where he was tried; found guilty of murder in the first degree ; motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were made and overruled, and he took a bill of exceptions. He was sentenced to suffer the death penalty on the twenty-seventh of February, 1880, and prayed an appeal, which was allowed by one of the judges of this court.

I. In the Franklin circuit court, the prisoner moved to quash the indictment, because the circuit…