Pinder v. State

Taylor, J. :

At the Spring term, 1890, of the Circuit Court for Clay county, Peter Pinder, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of one Joseph Tillman, on October llth, 1889. The alleged instrument of death used being a Winchester rifle. At the next ensuing Fall term of said Circuit Court, Pinder was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, and from such conviction and sentence the cause is brought to this court upon writ of error. It a})pears from the record that when the jury was being empanneled who fried the accused, and when the jurors were being tested upon the voir (lire…