Cummings v. Armstrong

Lucas, Judge :

Tlie petitioner, Samuel E. Cummings, presented his petition to one of the judges of this Court, praying that a *2rale be awarded against V. S. Armstrong, judge of the sixth judicial circuit of this State, requiring him to show cause why a mandamus should not issue against him to compel him to sign two certain bills of exceptions, which are set out in the petition. The petitioner was tried for murder' in the Circuit Court of Roane county at the August term, 1889, and convicted of murder in the first degree, and the punishment of confinement in the penitentiary awarded by the jury;…