State v. Poe

The defendants were indicted in Franklin county for the murder of K. E. Baker, on the night of the 8th of February, 1881. They were convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hung, from which judgment they have appealed in error to this court.

Several errors have been assigned and urged in argument for reversal of the judgment of the court below. A short statement of a few essential facts is necessarj in order to present the question for decision. The record shows that on the night of the killing, there was a wedding in the neighborhood of the place, and the deceased with one…