State v. Bledsoe

WESTHUES, Judge.

The defendant Loren Linn Bledsoe was tried in the Jackson County Circuit Court on a charge of murder in the first degree and was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury was unable to agree upon a punishment and thereafter the trial court assessed defendant’s punishment at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. He appealed from the sentence and has briefed only two points for our consideration. These points stated in defendant’s brief (omitting citation of authorities) are as follows:

“1. That the Court erred in permitting the prosecutor, in both his opening…