Sullivan v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The accused was indicted, tried and convicted of murder without a recommendation for mercy. The appeal is from the judgment and sentence and enumerates as error: (1) denial of motions to (a) change the venue and (b) quash the indictment and sustain a plea of abatement upon the ground that the grand and traverse juries were illegally constituted; (2) allowing the county attorney to assist the solicitor general; (3) failure to have the accused examined by a psychiatrist; and (4) allowing an alleged confession in evidence because the constitutional rights of the accused…