Gentry v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

Asbury Gentry was convicted of murder, and filed a motion for a new trial, to the overruling of which a bill of exceptions was sued out, and the case brought to this court. It was argued, and while this court had the same under consideration, the plaintiff in error escaped from jail and became a fugitive from justice. The fact of his escape was brought to the attention of this court by the solicitor-general, who filed affidavits of the proper officers showing that the escape had actually taken place, and that the prisoner was still at large and his whereabouts unknown. This…