Blimm v. Commonwealth

Tbe appellant, Peter Blimm, charged with the wanton murder of a little white boy, without any known provocation or apparent motive, was indicted, tried, and sentenced to the gallows at a special term of the Boone Circuit Court, ordered only a few days after the homicide, and commencing on the eighth day after the order was made in vacation.

His appeal to this court, urging various objections to the judgment, asserts in limine that the special term held without the notice prescribed by law was illegal, and that for want of jurisdiction the verdict and judgment against him are void.

If, as thus…