White v. State

Appellant was convicted by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The indictment was in two counts, the first charging murder in an attempt to perpetrate a robbery and the second, murder with premeditated malice. The only error assigned is the overruling of his motion for a new trial and the only questions properly raised under such assignment are that the court erred in overruling his motion, made at the conclusion of the state’s case, for a directed verdict, that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict and that it is contrary to law.

There was no…