Martin v. Edmondson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which petitioner, who is confined in the state penitentiary awaiting execution of a death sentence, seeks to have his conviction set aside and a new trial.

Petitioner and one Isgrigg were charged in Johnson County with the commission of four felonies, the first count of the information charging murder in the first degree of one Carver, a deputy sheriff of that county. A severance was requested and granted, and petitioner was by a jury found guilty of all four counts of the information. His…