Bishop v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Eeom the circuit court of Sunflower county. Hon. Jaimes M. Casuist, Judge. Bishop, appellant, was indicted for the murder of one Hutch-ison, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to suffer death, .and appealed to the supreme court. The deceased was shot while sitting in his house, the bullet being fired through the window in the day time by some one ■from the outside of the house.
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Eeom the circuit court of Sunflower county. Hon. Jaimes M. Casuist, Judge. Bishop, appellant, was indicted for the murder of one Hutch-ison, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to suffer death, .and appealed to the supreme court. The deceased was shot while sitting in his house, the bullet being fired through the window in the day time by some one ■from the outside of the house. Suspicion pointing to the appellant, he was arrested, and while in the custody of a deputy sheriff, Riddle, he is alleged to have confessed to committing the homicide. Bis conviction rested entirely upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteield, O'. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the examination of the witness Biddle it was asked, ■“Didn’t you, or some one present there [that is, when the confession was made in the upstairs room at the depot], at the time say it would be worse for him if he didn’t come out with the clean thing and tell all about it?” to which the witness answered, “Some one might have told him; I don’t remember telling him, and I don’t remember any one telling him that. 'Some one might have done it; but I don’t remember them. Q. You are not prepared to say it wasn’t told him at the time? A. No,…
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