Wright v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Hinds County, for the Second District. Hon. Geo. E. Brown, Judge. The only material facts in the case, and upon which the case was disposed of, are stated in the opinion of the court. filed a very elaborate brief, and argued the ease orally, citing the following authorities : R 0., 1871, §§ 2759-2806; Const. Miss., art. 1, sec. 7; Rev. Code, 1871, § 2631; Cotton v. The State, 2 George, 501; Eev.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Hinds County, for the Second District. Hon. Geo. E. Brown, Judge. The only material facts in the case, and upon which the case was disposed of, are stated in the opinion of the court. filed a very elaborate brief, and argued the ease orally, citing the following authorities : R 0., 1871, §§ 2759-2806; Const. Miss., art. 1, sec. 7; Rev. Code, 1871, § 2631; Cotton v. The State, 2 George, 501; Eev. Code, 1871, §§ 726, 728; ib., § 2758; Bales v. The State, 21 Miss., 115; Greenleaf’s Ev., § 150; Newcomb v. The State, 37 Miss., 383; Wesley v. The State, ib., 327;…
1Opinion of the CourtPeyton, C. J.
It appears that the plaintiff in error in this case was convicted in the circuit court of Hinds county, in the second district thereof, of the murder of one Charles Kelker and sentenced to be hung, and hence the case comes to this court by writ of error.
Yarious errors are assigned here in' the record of the proceedings and judgment in the court below. But in the view we take of this case, we deem it necessary to notice only the tenth assignment of error, which impeaches the correctness of the ruling of the court in admitting oral evidence of what the defendant said in his voluntary statement…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Peter v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1872
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