Hicks v. State

Mr. Justice McKinney (Retired)

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On November 14,1942, plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first degree, his punishment being* fixed at twenty-one years’ confinement in the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment entered upon, the verdict of the jury, from which an appeal was prayed and granted to this court, and the record was filed with the clerk of this court at Knoxville on December 28, 1942'.

The motion of plaintiff in error to he released from custody, pending his appeal upon executing bail bond, was overruled by…