Cody v. State

The appellants were indicted, and convicted of the murder of one Jim Parrish, in Monroe county, Mississippi, and sentenced to life imprisonment, from which judgment they appeal here.

The evidence to sustain the conviction is that of the wife of Jim Parrish, Mrs. Luchester Parrish, who claimed to have recognized the voice of Trannie Gregory, and also to have seen both of them. The killing occurred about one o’clock at night.

The testimony of Mrs. Luchester Parrish was to the effect that she was awakened by her husband while he was fumbling for a match box on the mantel; that shortly after she…