Brandon v. State

At a term of the Newton Circuit Court, commenced on August 27,1860, appointed and held by the Hon. Charles H. Test, judge of'the twelfth judicial circuit of the State, the appellant was indicted, tried and convicted .of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

The only question raised in the case is whether the statute . providing for the sitting of the Court is valid. The county of Neioton had been recently organized, or formed, being taken out of the territory of Jasper county, in the twelfth circuit. The tenth section of the amendatory act of…