Kee v. State

The appellant was tried upon an indictment for the murder of one Langley, in the Woodruff circuit court, at the September term thereof, 1872. The jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree, and he was sentenced to eleven years of hard labor in the state penitentiary.

In the progress of the trial divers exceptions were taken to the rulings of the court, upon evidence offered and upon instructions given to the jury as to the law of the case, all of which, after the verdict, were brought forward in a motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial was overruled, to which appellant…