Jones v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted in the criminal court of Knox county for the murder of Samuel C. Hickey on the morning of June 1, 1913. He was sentenced to death and has appealed to this court.- Numerous errors are assigned by his counsel, hut we need consider only one.

The assignment referred to is in substance that the trial judge charged the jury only on the subject of murder in the first degree, and self-defense, and matters relating thereto, and fail to instruct them on the crime of murder in the second degree. This was reversible error. The sections of our Code bearing…