Leach v. State

Mynatt Leach is under sentence of death for the murder of John D. Heclc. He *586was indicted, tried, and convicted in Anderson County, where the crime was committed. The jury rendered a verdict, finding him “guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, with mitigating circumstances;” but the presiding Judge being of the opinion that no mitigation was disclosed, pronounced the sentence of death. There is an appeal in error. The case was continued at the first term on the application of the State,' and tried at. the second term over the objection of the defendant. The…