State v. Abshire

*543The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused appeals from a verdict of guilty of murder and sentence to death — relying on several bills of exception.

The first one to which brief of counsel challenges attention w.as retained to the refusal of the judge to grant additional time before arraignment to prepare the prisoner’s preliminary defences.

The bill of exceptions relates “that the offence with which he stands charged is alleged to have been committed on the 31st of December, 1894. That the grand jury was empaneled on the 2d day of January, 1895. That he employed counsel on…