Dennis v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Hinds county. Hon. David M. Miller, Judge. Dennis, appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of John T. White, convicted, sentenced to suffer death and appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Hinds county. Hon. David M. Miller, Judge. Dennis, appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of John T. White, convicted, sentenced to suffer death and appealed to the supreme court. After the jury found appellant guilty as charged, he made a motion for a new trial, assigning as a ground therefor, that one of the jury, Calebro, was biased against him, the motion touching this point reading as follows-: “ (7) One of the jurors, V. O. Calebro, who tried the case, was incompetent as a juror, and was prejudiced against defendant, and had…
1Opinion of the CourtMates, J.
Louis Dennis was indicted in the second district of Hinds county for the murder of John White in the town of Raymond on the 25th day of February, 1905. Dennis was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. We do not deem it necessary to go at length into the discussion of the testimony, since the settlement of the case is to depend on the competency of the juror Calebro. It is a close question on the facts as to whether or not Dennis was guilty of the grave crime of murder.
On the motion for a new trial it was alleged that one Calebro, a juror who had tried the case, was incompetent because he was…
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