Washington v. State

Bichard Washington was indicted in Jasper superior court for the offense of murder, and at the August term, 1911,.of said court he was found guilty by the jury trying him, with the recommendation that his punishment be life imprisonment in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was made on the general grounds, which was afterwards amended. The motion, as amended, was overruled by the court, and the defendant assigns this ruling as error. The case made by the State is substantially as follows: On the night of the homicide defendant and deceased were at the house of William Smith; “there…