People v. Atherton

By the Court:

The prisoner having been convicted in the court below of the crime of murder in the first degree, in the felonious killing of Edgar Gr. May, and adjudged to suffer death, brings this appeal from the judgment, and from an order denying his motion for new trial:

1. We are unable to discover any error in the action of court below denying the motion of the prisoner to change the place of trial of the case. Though the point is made in form, no argument in its support has been submitted, and it is understood to have been abandoned.

2. In impaneling the trial jury, T. V. Johnson, who had…