Fraser v. State

Jackson, Judge.

Dr. Joseph B. Dunwoody was murdered at the door-sill of his house in Plouston county under circumstances of great atrocity. He was called out between ten and eleven o’clock *327at night as if to visit a patient, and while talking to the murderer about the supposed sick person,' he was shot down by the false messenger. Suspicion rested upon the defendant; he was arrested, tried and found guilty, and being recommended to mercy by the jury, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. A motion was made for a new trial on various grounds, it was overruled on all of them, and the case…