Mask v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Marshall county circuit court. Scruggs, J. The plaintiff was convicted a second time, in the court below, of the murder of Susan Elizabeth Smith, the first verdict having been set aside by this court. See 32 Miss. B., 405. The following is the substance of the evidence: Eor the State. — "William Smith is a brother of the deceased, who was about sixteen years of age at the time she was killed.
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Error to Marshall county circuit court. Scruggs, J. The plaintiff was convicted a second time, in the court below, of the murder of Susan Elizabeth Smith, the first verdict having been set aside by this court. See 32 Miss. B., 405. The following is the substance of the evidence: Eor the State. — "William Smith is a brother of the deceased, who was about sixteen years of age at the time she was killed. On the 26th of April, 1856, between three and four o’clock in the evening, the prisoner, James Mask, his brother, and Thomas and Henry Wooley, his brothers-in-law, came to witness’ father’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, J.:
The plaintiff in error was convicted upon an indictment for murder in the circuit court of Marshall county. This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse the judgment pronounced on that conviction. Six causes of error are assigned. We shall, however, notice those only which are relied on in the briefs of counsel and in the argument of the case, the others having been waived, by agreement, as not being sustainable.
The first ground of error relied on is, that the court erred in permitting Walker and Blackard to answer the questions in relation to the character of Thomas Wooley for…
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