Coleman v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the circuit court of, second' district, Coahoma county. HoN. Samuel C. Cook, Judge. Coleman, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder of Ella Coleman, his wife, -and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, from which conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The offense charged in the indictment in this case was committed “partly in one county and partly in another.”
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Feom the circuit court of, second' district, Coahoma county. HoN. Samuel C. Cook, Judge. Coleman, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder of Ella Coleman, his wife, -and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, from which conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The offense charged in the indictment in this case was committed “partly in one county and partly in another.” The mortal blow was struck in Coahoma county and death resulted therefrom in Quitman county. Appellant was first indicted in Quitman…
1Opinion of the CourtTeuly., J.
On the 20th day of October, 1900, in the county of Coahoma, appellant shot his wife, Ella Coleman, under circumstances not necessary to be detailed here, as the decision turns upon another point. On the 21st of October, 1900, in the county of Quit-man, said Ella Coleman, as the result of such shot, died. On the Ith of March, 1901, in the county of Quitman, appellant, by the grand jury of that county, was indicted for manslaughter on account of the killing of said Ella Coleman; and as to this indictment, at the September term of the circuit court of said Quitman county, after appellant was…
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