Clayton v. State

This case is in effect a companion case to Doss v. State, 123 So. 237, 1 pending in this court, in which case is discussed the organization of the grand jury and the rulings on demurrer. On these two questions the rulings of this court are the same in both cases. It therefore becomes unnecessary to repeat them here.

At the beginning of the trial the defendant moved the court for a continuance for and on account of public excitement and prejudice engendered against him by reason of publications appearing in three daily papers relative to the trial in the Doss Case and the rulings of the court…