State v. Lewis

The defendant was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree in the St. Louis criminal court, from which he appealed to the St. Louis court of appeals, where the judgment of the criminal court was reversed and the cause remanded, on the ground of error in overruling his application for a continuance, and from this reversal, in the court of appeals, the State brings the ease *223here by appeal. The case is not yet reported, but the opinion of the court of appeals was delivered at its October term, 1880, when the facts were fully stated. This opinion of the court of appeals appears to us…