State v. Johnson

The defendant, Oscar Johnson, was by a jury convicted of the crime of murder, and by the court sentenced to be hanged. From a judgment confirming the conviction and sentence, he prosecutes this appeal, and relies on four bills of exception for a reversal, which we shall consider and dispose of in the order in which they are presented in the record and discussed in the briefs of counsel, both for the state and; the defense.

Bill No. 1.

This hill was reserved to the action of the trial judge in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The motion is based on the ground, that the verdict…