Brown v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. Samuel 0. Cook, Judge. Brown, the appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of murder, and appealed to the supreme court. A dispute arose between the mother of appellant and the wife of deceased, in which dispute deceased took little or no part, and which ended in the appellant’s mother, Maria Brown, calling to appellant to bring a gun. Appellant obeyed, and the trouble ended for the time being.
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From the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. Samuel 0. Cook, Judge. Brown, the appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of murder, and appealed to the supreme court. A dispute arose between the mother of appellant and the wife of deceased, in which dispute deceased took little or no part, and which ended in the appellant’s mother, Maria Brown, calling to appellant to bring a gun. Appellant obeyed, and the trouble ended for the time being. About half an. hour later a quarrel occurred between Maria Brown and the small stepdaughter of Armistead Fairley, the deceased, which resulted…
1Opinion of the Court
Wtiiteiéld, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The only error assigned, calling for notice, is the one as to the alleged previous difficulty. It is only necessary to say that the alleged previous difficulty, and the conduct and declarations of the parties therein, were all clearly competent under the recent case of Brown v. State, 86 Miss., 511 (40 South. Rep., 787). All that was done and said in both the difficulties, half an hour apart, grew out of the same common cause, and constituted in effect but one continuous difficulty. There is no merit in any of the other assignments of error.
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