Lyon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Chickasaw county. HoN. W. A. RoaNe, Judge. George Lyon was convicted of murder, and he appeals. We earnestly contend that the evidence did not support the verdict and that the peremptory instruction should have been in defendant’s favor. The evidence for the prosecution fails to show that he was guilty. The evidence for both the state and the defendant shows that .he was not guilty.
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Appeal from circuit court of Chickasaw county. HoN. W. A. RoaNe, Judge. George Lyon was convicted of murder, and he appeals. We earnestly contend that the evidence did not support the verdict and that the peremptory instruction should have been in defendant’s favor. The evidence for the prosecution fails to show that he was guilty. The evidence for both the state and the defendant shows that .he was not guilty. No one contended that appellant was present at the home of the deceased when Henry Gardner was doing the talking he did to deceased’s people. He says he was not there, that he did not…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, P. J.
Appellant was convicted of murder, hut the jury failed to agree as to the punishment; consequently he was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The appellant and several other negroes were jointly indicted for the murder of one Dotsie Chandler. A severance was granted, and two of the codefendants who were convicted of murder prosecuted appeals to this court, and the judgments were affirmed. It is insisted here that the appellant should have been discharged as a matter of law because the testimony failed to show a conspiracy, and failed to show that the appellant…
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