Burrage v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Madison county. Hon. W. A. Henry, Judge. J. H. Burrage was convicted of murder and appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. We cannot in this brief or in oral argument, which we desire, elaborate all of the errors that we have assigned, twenty-five in number, and will have to trust to the court to give to each assignment, such consideration as may he merited.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Madison county. Hon. W. A. Henry, Judge. J. H. Burrage was convicted of murder and appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. We cannot in this brief or in oral argument, which we desire, elaborate all of the errors that we have assigned, twenty-five in number, and will have to trust to the court to give to each assignment, such consideration as may he merited. Certainly the court erred in not granting the continuance and in not granting a new trial, and in other respects which we will now discuss. It is an old saying that “it is…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Appellant, having been in the court below convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary, appeals to this court. When the case came on for trial, he filed a motion for a continuance on the ground of the absence of witnesses, who would testify to matters material to his defense.
In order to ascertain the truth of the matters set up in this application, the district attorney, over the objection of appellant, cross-examined him with reference thereto, but asked him no questions with reference to his guilt or innocence of the crime for which he was on trial.…
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