Lea v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall County. HoN. W. S. FeatheestoN, Judge. The grand jury of Marshall County found an indictment against Rebecca Lea for gaming.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall County. HoN. W. S. FeatheestoN, Judge. The grand jury of Marshall County found an indictment against Rebecca Lea for gaming. The second count of the indictment was as follows: “ That Becky Lea, Mose Lumpkin, Celia Pryor, and Mary Pryor, late of said county, on the 12th of April, 1886, in said county unlawfully did play at a certain game and games of dice for money, to wit, for the sum of ten cents, and for other sums of money, and for other things of value, to the grand jurors unknown, contrary to the statute in such cases made and provided, and…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The indorsements upon the indictment are amply sufficient to identify it with the one returned by the grand jury, and to authenticate it as an indictment properly returned. If it be conceded that the stamping of his name on its back by the clerk could not be a substitute for his written signature, the defect is cured by the other certificate of filing properly signed by him.
It was not competent for the defendant to prove, for the purpose of attacking the credibility of the State’s witness, Garrett, that he had testified as a witness in many other State cases at the same term of the court;…
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