Keel v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

At the Fall Term 1936 of the Clarke County Circuit Court, the grand jury found, and returned into open court, an indictment which charged this appellant, and others not on trial, with the offense of murder in the first degree; specifically, that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought, killed Sam McVay alias S. T. McVay, by stabbing him with a knife.

A severance was demanded by Henry Keel, Jr., and granted by the court; and from the record it appears that he was put to trial in said court on the 27th day of April 1939, having interposed his plea of. hot guilty, in…