James v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for burglary with intent to murder; punishment three years in the penitentiary.

Examination of this record leads us to conclude that we are under the necessity of reversing the case for failure to accord to the accused a right guaranteed him by our statutes. There is but one bill of exceptions which complains of the refusal of two days’ time after service of a copy of the indictment. There is a lengthy qualification to the bill which brings into this record many pages of extended and apparently heated examinaton of witnesses, including attorneys and also the judge…