Woodward v. State

Mabry, J.:

The plaintiff iu error was indicted on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1893, during a, term of the Circuit Court for Hillsborough county, for the murder of Samuel Kelly, aud was convicted on the 15th day'of the same month, of murder in the first degree as charged in the indictment. Before arraignment and trial, defendant filed a plea in abatement, and it appears that after a demurrer on the part of the State had been sustained as to a part, and overruled as to the remainder of this plea, defendant asked leave to withdraw the plea filed, and to interpose an amended plea .in abatement then…