Bateman v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. George W. Bateman was indicted for an assault and battery on Vines M. Wells with an intent to kill and murder him. The evidence to identify Bateman as the guilty party was circumstantial.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. George W. Bateman was indicted for an assault and battery on Vines M. Wells with an intent to kill and murder him. The evidence to identify Bateman as the guilty party was circumstantial. The court, on the trial, admitted, over the objection of defendant, testimony that showed that criminal relations had existed between the wife of Wells and Batemen; that Wells knew of these relations, and on that account had separated from, and instituted suit against Bateman for the seduction of, his wife, who was then…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, J.
The record shows that appellant was arraigned and that his plea of not guilty was entered by the court, but it is insisted that the facts did not warrant this entry. The facts are that after the witnesses had been sworn and put under the rule, the district attorney read the indictment to the jury, and that when he commenced he invited appellant as well as the jury to listen to the reading, and that when he concluded, the counsel for the prisoner, in his presence and without objection being made by him, announced that the plea was not guilty, and that thereupon the presiding judge entered on…
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