Seymour v. State

Duckworth;, Chief Justice.

Sylvester Seymour was indicted for murder and convicted without a recommendation. Thereafter he filed a motion for new trial on the usual general grounds, and later filed an amendment thereto containing four special grounds. The exception here is to the judgment overruling his motion for new trial as amended. Held:

1. The first special ground of the motion alleges error of the court in dismissing the special pleas of the accused to the indictment and warrant, that he had been denied due process of law under the 14th amendment in that he had been illegally arrested and…