Handy v. State

Henry J. Handy shot and killed his wife under circumstances, disclosed in the record, of extraordinary deliberation and set purpose, and being convicted of murder in the first degree, by a jury in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County* and being sentenced to death, has brought this appeal from rulings of the Court made in the course of the trial.

The first exception arose in this way, as stated in the record. "J. Cleveland White, being called and examined by the Court and sworn on his voir dire, and after the usual questions were propounded by the Court, declared by the Court to be a qualified…