State v. . Payne

SEAWELL, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. Criminal indictment charging defendants with the murder of George Penn.

Verdict: Guilty of murder in the first degree.

Judgment: Death by asphyxiation. The record on this appeal covers three hundred forty-two pages and contains six hundred and eighty-eight exceptions. Some of the exceptions have been abandoned; the others have been grouped in fifty-two assignments of error. Some of them are formal; others, manifestly untenable, require no further elaboration on well settled principles of law relating thereto. The remainder…