State v. Donelon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused, John Donelon, was jointly indicted and tried with several others on a charge of murder, and the result *746of the trial was that he and two others were convicted and found guilty without capital punishment, the prosecution as to the other three defendants having been abandoned after the case had been closed and submitted to the jury.

This appeal is prosecuted from the judgment and sentence of the court by John Donelon alone, assigning as the principal ground on which he is entitled to relief various errors committed by the trial…