Wimbush v. State

KNIGHT, Justice.

The defendant, appellant here, wa-s indicted and tried for, and convicted bf the offense of murder in the first degree; and his punishment was fixed by the trial jury at death.

Upon this verdict of the jury, the Court duly adjudged the defendant gqilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced him to death by electrocution.

There is no bill of exceptions in the record, but in the record proper we find that three motions in writing were made by the defendant prior to the selection of the trial jury. These motions were, each in turn, overruled by the Court. By force of-Section…