Shepherd v. State

Taylor, J.:

The plaintiff in error, at the Fall term, 1894, of the Circuit Court of Orange county, was indicted, tried and convicted for the crime of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, from which he takes writ of error here.

There are twenty-seven assignments of error. Commencing with the fifth amendment we will discuss them in the order in which they are stated, reserving the first, second, third and fourth assignments to be considered together.

The fifth assignment is, that “the court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant, prior to his arraignment, that the indictment…