Campbell v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Yazoo county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Campbell, appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of one Bunk Collins, and sentenced to be hanged. He appealed to the supreme court. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
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From the circuit court of Yazoo county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Campbell, appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of one Bunk Collins, and sentenced to be hanged. He appealed to the supreme court. The opinion sufficiently states the case. The testimony taken down by a magistrate in a preliminary hearing of a criminal case, which the law requires him to take in writing, is not competent evidence on the trial of the case unless § 1463 of the code of 1892 has been fully complied with. Rone of the solemn requirements of the law were performed by the magistrate, Boswell. The…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
About the 16th of March, 1902, T. R. Boswell, a justice of the peace in Yazoo county, took the examination ,of the case of Joe Campbell, charged with the murder of Bunk Collins. Upon the examination Campbell testified as a witness in his own behalf, as it was entirely competent for him to do, and the substance was reduced to' writing, but the writing remained without signature or certification. More than five months after *419such examination appellant was put upon his trial in the circuit court upon an indictment against him for the murder of Bunk Collins. Upon the trial Boswell testified for…
2Cited by1 opinion
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