Reeves v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe circuit court of Lauderdale county. HoN. JNO. L. Buckley, Judge. Barney Reeves was convicted of murder and appeals. Appellant was convicted of murder for the killing of one John Hughes, and sentenced to imprisonment in the pentitentiary for life. The state’s theory of the ease is that the killing was murder, and the defendant’s theory was that the shooting was accidental.
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Appeal from tbe circuit court of Lauderdale county. HoN. JNO. L. Buckley, Judge. Barney Reeves was convicted of murder and appeals. Appellant was convicted of murder for the killing of one John Hughes, and sentenced to imprisonment in the pentitentiary for life. The state’s theory of the ease is that the killing was murder, and the defendant’s theory was that the shooting was accidental. On appeal, among other errors, the action of the court in admitting as evidence two alleged dying declarations of deceased, one to the physician, Dr. Bounds, who attended him, and the other to a friend named…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This as an appeal from a conviction of the crime of murder, and two of the assignments of error are the admission of testimony of two alleged separate and distinct dying declarations made by the person appellant is alleged to have killed. One of these declarations was testified to by Dr. Bounds, and will be found on page 61 of the records, and the other by Will ITowse, and will be found on pages 65 and 66 of the record, both of which the reporter will set out in full.
The grounds of these objections are, first, that the testimony does not show that they were made under the realization and…
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