Cook v. State

O. L. Cook was indicted in the Union Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing" of one Freeman Scott. The indictment was valid. The defendant was put on trial for the offense charged, and the jury, after hearing all of the evidence, the instructions of the court and the argument of counsel, retired to consider their verdict, and afterwards returned into court the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment.” The defendant, by the judgment of the court, was sentenced to be put to death by…