Williams v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried in the circuit court of Marshall county upon an indictment for murder, and convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. A motion was made in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, which being overruled, the prisoner excepted, and prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment entered against him.

Several grounds are taken in this court upon which it is insisted that the judgment should be reversed and a venire de novo awarded. In proceeding to notice them, we shall pursue the order in which they are presented in the record.

The first exception relates…