Martin v. State

Beid, Chief Justice.

The claims of error in this case, where the defendant was convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of his wife, in addition to the general grounds of the motion for new trial relate to the charge of the court and to the question (made in a special ground of his motion for new trial) whether the venue of the crime was sufficiently shown. The facts about the homicide, as shown by the defendant’s statement and from evidence offered by a number of witnesses testifying both for the State and for the defendant, are not really in substantial conflict as regards…