Atkins v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the criminal court of Knox county at the January term, 1906, for the murder of one Edith Eckel, and was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the State penitentiary. From this judgment, after his motion for a new trial was overruled, he appealed to this court, and has here assigned errors.

The errors assigned are wholly upon the action of the ■court in admitting certain testimony objected to in the court below, and upon certain portions of the charge. In order, however, to a proper understanding of the .points thus arising, it will be…