State v. Jones

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

From an unqualified verdict, on an indictment for murder, and sentence of death, the two defendants — John Jones and Henry Simmons — prosecute this appeal, relying on several bills of exceptions which they reserved during the progress of the trial.

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As it is officially stated by the trial judge in his assignment of reasons for his rulings, that bills of exception one to six, inclusive, being reserved by counsel representing the defendant John Jones, and not by counsel representing Henry Simmons, the testimony adduced and about which…