Howard v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The attorney for appellant, in his brief filed in this case, has fully set, out a statement of the facts, which we here adopt as a basis for the opinion which will be hereinafter rendered.

Reduced to its last analysis, there were two indictments pending against the defendant at the time of the trial and judgment, from which this appeal is taken. One of the indictments was returned into court at the Fall Term of the Circuit Court of Escambia County in the year 1914. The indictment upon which this trial was had was , returned into the same court at its Fall Term, 1937.

The pendency…