Long v. State

— Plaintiff in error, who is hereinafter referred to as defendant, was indicted by a grand jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County upon a charge of murder. Upon a plea of not guilty to the indictment he was tried and convicted of murder in the second degx’ee. A motion for a new trial was denied by the trial judge and defendant was sentenced by the court to be confined in the State prison at hard labor for a term of his natural life. There*466upon he took writ of error from this court and the case is here for review.

There are two assignments of error: the first that the trial court erred in…