Brown v. State

Ben Brown, with others, was, on the 10th of February, 1886, indicted for the murder of Frank Arnold. lie obtained a severance, and was convicted on the 8th of March following, in the Criminal Court of Davidson County, of murder in the first degree. His motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment being overruled, and sentence of death pronounced, he appealed in error.

On the same day of the finding of the indictment the defendant ivas arraigned and plead not guilty, and the case was set for trial on the 24th of February. The trial was not, in fact, commenced until the first day of March,…