State v. Murray

The appellant was convicted of the crime of burglary and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The record contains four bills of exception, three of which relate to the same subject-matter. It appears that a boy named Elliott was also arrested and charged with the crime, and when he was brought to the jail, in presence of the defendant Murray, he admitted having taken part in the crime, and implicated Murray. Murray alone was brought to trial, and Elliott testified against him. When Murray took the stand as a witness he said that Elliott, in his confession in the jail, talked…