Hunt v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, death.

In disposing of the major complaint made by appellant, viz: that the court below erred in refusing to submit to the jury his. plea of former jeopardy, it may be admitted that prior to this, conviction, and since the enactment of our present murder-statute, in the same trial court, and upon an indictment based on the same single act here involved and containing two counts, one charging murder upon malice aforethought, the other a voluntary killing without mention of malice, this appellant was found guilty of murder and his punishment…