Gilmore v. State

At the March 1955 Term of the Circuit Court of Monroe County, Murry Garfield Gilmore was found guilty of the murder of Sam C. Addington, and was sentenced to death in the State’s lethal chamber. Prom the judgment entered he appealed.

Addington’s store burned down on November 16, 1954, and the murder investigation began immediately. Gilmore was arrested several days later,- and was thereafter confined in the county jail from November 23 until the date of the trial. An indictment was returned on *176March 14, 1955, at which time the defendant was arraigned, with counsel of his own choice present. A…