Marley v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Tallahatchie county. Hon. W. A. Alcorn, Judge. E. J. Marley was convicted of murder and appealed and the attorney-general filed a motion for an order directing the issuance of process for accused’s arrest pending the appeal, on the ground that an order admitting him to hail was void. Motion sustained. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Appellant was convicted of the crime of murder in the circuit court of Tallahatchie county, which county is situated in the Seventeenth judicial district, and appealed to this court. Afterwards, he was, by order of the judge of the Seventeenth judicial district, and who tried the cause in the court below, removed to the jail at Clarksdale, Coahoma county, for safe keeping. Coahoma county is in the Eleventh judicial dictrict. On the 16th day of November, 1914, while still confined in the jail at Clarksdale, appellant was admitted to bail, pending his appeal to this court, by the judge of the…
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