Brooks v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

At the March Term, 1939, of the circuit (court, above designated court, the grand jury found, and returned into open court, an indictment against this appellant charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree. Specifically, that he unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Newt Garrison by shooting him with a shot gun, etc. The indictment was duly filed on March 23, 1939.

Upon said indictment he was duly arraigned on March 28, 1939, whereupon the defendant interposed his plea of “not guilty.” The trial resulted in his conviction for the offense of…