Cook v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe circuit court of Calhoun county. TIon. Joseph T. Dunn, Judge. Cook, the appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of one Crawford, convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to the penitentiary for twelve years and appealed — his second appeal —to the supreme court.
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From tbe circuit court of Calhoun county. TIon. Joseph T. Dunn, Judge. Cook, the appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of one Crawford, convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to the penitentiary for twelve years and appealed — his second appeal —to the supreme court. The facts as to the killing of Crawford, for which appellant and his brother, Daniel, were jointly indicted for murder, are set forth in the report of the case of Daniel Qooh v. Biale, 85 Miss., 738, 38 South. Kep., 110. Severance and separate trials of the defendants were had, the appellant on his first trial being…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
We shall not undertake to follow out and discuss each of the errors assigned by appellants, for the reason that many of them are so clearly answered in the record against the contention made that we deem it unnecessary. We shall only discuss the serious questions raised in argument of counsel.
The first error assigned to which we address our attention is that which involves the method in which the jury were drawn from the jury box, who were to serve as jurors during the term of court at which appellant was to be tried,. Ajjpellant moved the court, after the special venire which had been…
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