Gossitt v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

Bill Gossitt and Lannis Gossitt were jointly indicted for the murder of Charlie Bryant by beating him with an iron poker and shooting him with a shotgun. On the separate trial of Bill Gossitt the jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilt}1', and he was sentenced to be electrocuted. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

1. It is not a ground for new trial that the indictment was void because, as alleged, the oath administered to the witnesses before the grand jury, under whose evidence the indictment was found, was not in the language of the…