Snead v. State

LAWSON, Justice.

’Appellant, Buster Snead, alias Buster Sneed, was indicted for the first degree murder of Ellen Mason by a grand jury of Bibb County. Snead was unable to employ counsel, so the trial court appointed two practicing attorneys of the Bibb County Bar to represent him. § 318, Title 15, Code 1940, as amended. Upon arraignment he pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, and was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution. The appeal here is under the automatic appeal statute. Act 249, Acts 1943, p. 217, approved June 24, 1943,…