State v. Cremeans

McWhorteR, Judge:

Grover Cremeans and William Taylor were indicted jointly in the»circuit court of Mason county for the murder of John Smith on the -day of June, 1904. Cremeans was tried separately on the plea of not guilty. The trial proceeded from day to day until the 18th day of March, 1905, when the jury returned a verdict that the defendant Grover Cremeans was not guilty of murder in the first degree but was guilty of murder in the second degree as charged in the indictment. The defendant by his counsel moved the court to set aside the verdict as being contrary to the law and the evidence…