Hague v. State

Fisher, J.:

The prisoner was indicted by a grand jury empaneled at the October term, 1853, of the circuit court of Chickasaw county, for the murder of one Harmonious Parker. The venue was at the next succeeding term of the couft, changed, upon the application of the prisoner, to the county of Choctaw; and being put upon his trial at the September term, 1855, of the circuit court of said county, he was by the jury found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and from the sentence pronounced upon this verdict, he has prosecuted this writ of error.

Although numerous errors relating to the…