Mastronada v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, Judge. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. I. The court below erred in not allowing the appellant to withdraw his plea of guilty. The Constitutions of the State and the United States give to every person charged with an offence the right to a trial by jury, if he desires it. In this case it is desired.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, Judge. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. I. The court below erred in not allowing the appellant to withdraw his plea of guilty. The Constitutions of the State and the United States give to every person charged with an offence the right to a trial by jury, if he desires it. In this case it is desired. It is never' too late for a defendant to avail himself of this right until the waiver of it has been clearly and understandingly made and acted upon by the court by the imposition of judgment. In most of…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the offence of unlawful retailing, at a term of the Circuit Court of Warren County, begun and held on the 26th of June, 1882. By the ninth section of the act creating a separate court district in this State, composed of the county of Warren (Acts 1876, p. 241), the judge of that court was authorized to calla special term thereof for the transaction of criminal business in the months of July, August, and September; and this, it is insisted, excludes the power of convening one at any other time, and renders everything done at the special term here…
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