Boykin v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom: tie circuit court of Olarke county. Hon. Robeet F. Coohban, Judge. Boykin, tke appellant, and another were indicted for the murder of one Marvin Long. The prosecution was dismissed as to the other person, and Boykin was tried and convicted of manslaughter, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Feom: tie circuit court of Olarke county. Hon. Robeet F. Coohban, Judge. Boykin, tke appellant, and another were indicted for the murder of one Marvin Long. The prosecution was dismissed as to the other person, and Boykin was tried and convicted of manslaughter, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The court below refused the following instruction asked by defendant: “The court instructs the jury that if they believe from the evidence .the sugar cane testified about was cane which had been banked on Boykin’s land by Long as the tenant of…
1Opinion of the CourtHoustoN, J.
At the April term of the Clarke county circuit court the appellant was jointly indicted with his aunt, Mrs. Garrison, for the murder of Marvin Long. At the next term of said court the case was nol-prossed as to Mrs. Garrison. At the March term, 1905, the defendant was tried and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, from which conviction he prosecutes this appeal, and mainly assigns as error the refusal of on© instruction requested by him, the modification of four others, and the granting of two instructions requested by the state.
We think the court erred…
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