State v. Coleman

Statement of the Case.

MONROE, J.

Defendant, having been convicted of murder and sentenced to death, has appealed. He is not represented in this court, but we find in the transcript;(1) A motion to quash the indictment on the ground that it does not allege that the deceased was “a person in the peace of the state then: and there being,” and the following bills of exception, to wit:(2) To the ruling of the court permitting a state witness to be asked, “Did you ever hear a quarrel between the defendant and the deceased?” over the objection that the question “fixed no time, was irrelevant, and not…