Thompson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. Orlando Davis, Judge. Plaintiff in error was arrested and tried by a justice of the peace, charged that he “ did shoot and wound a horse,” the property of the prosecutor, Nellums. The justice fined him $50. He appealed to the circuit court, was there tried, and the verdict is “guilty of mischievously wounding the horse without intent to Trill.”
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Error to the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. Orlando Davis, Judge. Plaintiff in error was arrested and tried by a justice of the peace, charged that he “ did shoot and wound a horse,” the property of the prosecutor, Nellums. The justice fined him $50. He appealed to the circuit court, was there tried, and the verdict is “guilty of mischievously wounding the horse without intent to Trill.” A motion was made in arrest of judgment, which was overruled, and the case comes to this court on a writ of error. It is assigned for error, that the court refused to arrest the judgment. Walter &…
1Opinion of the CourtTarbebl, J.
The plaintiff in error was prosecuted before a justice of the peace, on an affidavit in these words: “ Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the said county and state aforesaid, Teed Nellums, who made certificate and information on oath that Lewis Thompson did, on or about the 25th day of June, 1872, shoot and wound one horse belonging to said Nellums, with a gun, all of which is against the peace and dignity of the state of Mississippi; whereupon, he prays that a warrant may issue for his arrest, and that he be made to answer the charge preferred…
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