State v. Underwood

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant in this case having been indicted for murder, convicted of the charge and sentenced to death, appeals *853to this court, relying for reversal upon the grounds embodied in two bills of exceptions found in the record.

The first bill is directed against the action of the judge a quo in permitting the district attorney over the objections of the counsel of the accused to cross-examine the accused then on the stand, as to certain facts — the second against the overruling of a motion for a new trial, the application for which it was…