Jones v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Eekoe to the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. CheismaN, Judge. The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence, and sentenced to be banged. Notwithstanding his objection, several jurors were rejected by the court because they stated that they would not convict a man to be hanged on circumstantial evidence, but if satisfied of guilt would send him to the penitentiary for life.
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Eekoe to the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. CheismaN, Judge. The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence, and sentenced to be banged. Notwithstanding his objection, several jurors were rejected by the court because they stated that they would not convict a man to be hanged on circumstantial evidence, but if satisfied of guilt would send him to the penitentiary for life. On Monday the plaintiff in error said he would kill Ira Anderson if his mistress went to live^ with him. She went on Tuesday, and that night Anderson was assassinated while sitting…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The court ruled correctly as to the competency of jurors. The punishment prescribed by law for murder is death by hanging. The jury finding a verdict of guilty of murder may fix the punishment at imprisonment for life. The law deems circumstantial evidence sufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty of murder, and a juror who is not willing to pronounce a verdict of guilty of murder on sufficient circumstantial evidence, to be followed by the sentence of the law in such case, is not such a juror as the law requires for the trial of an indictment for murder.
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