Jeffries v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Marshall county. The facts' are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The action of the court in regard to the juror, Kilpatrick, was erroneous. The verdict had been just returned into court, and counsel offered to make affidavit as to what they expected to prove by the absent witnesses, Hargus and Hancock, and asked time to procure the attendance of these witnesses, who lived about thirteen miles from the courthouse.
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From the circuit court of Marshall county. The facts' are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The action of the court in regard to the juror, Kilpatrick, was erroneous. The verdict had been just returned into court, and counsel offered to make affidavit as to what they expected to prove by the absent witnesses, Hargus and Hancock, and asked time to procure the attendance of these witnesses, who lived about thirteen miles from the courthouse. The court waived the affidavit and declined to grant counsel time within which to procure attendance- of the witnesses as requested. Simple…
1Opinion of the CourtStockdale, J.
Paul Jeffries was convicted of the murder of Denton Odell, at the August, 1896, term of the Marshall county circuit court, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, and appealed his case to this court.
We have made a thorough and careful examination of the case as presented by the record and have given attention to all the assignments of error, but, in view of its graver importance, will consider the fourth assignment first, which is, that -the court erred in refusing to set aside the verdict of the jury and in refusing to grant the defendant a new trial. Upon the hearing of the motion for a new…
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