Dennis v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of Madison county. HoN. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Dennis, appellant, was indicted by the grand jury of, second district, Hinds county for the murder of one John T. White, was tried, convicted and sentenced to suffer death. He appealed to the supreme court and the conviction was reversed and a new trial granted. See Dennis v. State, 91 Miss. 221. After the reversal of the conviction he applied for bail and the chancellor granted the application.
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FROM the circuit court of Madison county. HoN. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Dennis, appellant, was indicted by the grand jury of, second district, Hinds county for the murder of one John T. White, was tried, convicted and sentenced to suffer death. He appealed to the supreme court and the conviction was reversed and a new trial granted. See Dennis v. State, 91 Miss. 221. After the reversal of the conviction he applied for bail and the chancellor granted the application. The state appealed to the supreme court from the judgment allowing bail, but the judgment was affirmed. See Ex parte Louis…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the case at bar the trial had proceeded for three days, and the jury had not only been sworn in chief, but numerous witnesses had testified before the jury. In the selection of the jury the defendant had exercised ten of the peremptory challenges allowed him by tire statute. One of the jurors became insane during the progress of the trial. The defendant thereupon moved the court to declare a mistrial, discharge the jury, and give him a trial d& novo, which motion was overruled. The court discharged the insane juror and proceeded to…
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