Spight v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Tippah county. TIoN. C. Lee Cbum, Judge. ‘Allen Spight was convicted of murder and appeals.. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the couft. The first assignment of error is the action of the court in overruling the objection of counsel for appellant to the testimony of George Garrett who was jointly indicted with the appellant.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Tippah county. TIoN. C. Lee Cbum, Judge. ‘Allen Spight was convicted of murder and appeals.. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the couft. The first assignment of error is the action of the court in overruling the objection of counsel for appellant to the testimony of George Garrett who was jointly indicted with the appellant. In the latest case we have found where this court passed on this subject, the case of Brown v. The State, 108 Miss. 46, 66 So. 288, the question there was whfether the objection of a eo-defendant to testifying could be raised…
1Opinion of the CourtHoldeN, J.
The appellant, Allen Spight, was tried and convicted of the murder of Ira Short, and sentenced to death, from which judgment he appeals.
The evidence shows the crime was most diabolical and was participated in by another man, George Garrett, It appears that the appellant and Garrett had a controversy with the deceased Short regarding damages on account of Short’s cow eating corn belonging to appellant and Garrett. The two had called upon the deceased at his home, and while there Garrett abused the deceased. That afternoon Garrett was at the home of appellant, when the deceased came there and…
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