Simmons v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. About nine o’clock on the night of September 14,1881, General W. F. Tucker, while sitting alone in the study of his residence at Okalona, was killed by a ball which was shot through the window and penetrated his heart. Persons attracted by the report came to the room and found his body.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. About nine o’clock on the night of September 14,1881, General W. F. Tucker, while sitting alone in the study of his residence at Okalona, was killed by a ball which was shot through the window and penetrated his heart. Persons attracted by the report came to the room and found his body. An immediate search disclosed a round hole in one of the window panes about three feet from the floor, and outside tracts of a peculiar kind upon the ground near the window. About the hour of the murder the tramping of rapidly…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
Most of the numerous exceptions reserved by the appellant and assigned for error are without merit. All have been considered but only a few of them will be specially remarked upon.
When it was proposed by the State to introduce evidence of confessions of his guilt by the appellant, he asked that a preliminary investigation should be made by the court, to ascertain if the alleged confessions were made under such circumstances as to make them admissible in evidence. The court refused to pursue this course, and stated that all the evidence as to the confessions and the circumstances attending…
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