Jones v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Jones, appellant, was indicted and tried for and was convicted of robbery, sentenced to the penitentiary and appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Jones, appellant, was indicted and tried for and was convicted of robbery, sentenced to the penitentiary and appealed to the supreme court. A statement of the facts of the case is unnecessary in view of the points upon which the case was decided by the supreme court. [The briefs of counsel in this case were absent from the record when it reached the reporter, hence no synopsis ^of them is given in this report.]
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The motion to arrest the judgment should have' been sustained. The indictment is in the following words: “The State of Mississippi, County of Hinds, Hirst District, Circuit Court, September Term, 1908, Hirst Judicial District, Hinds County. The grand jurors for the state of Mississippi, taken from the body of the good and lawful men of said district, elected, impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire in and for the county and district aforesaid, at the term aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the state of Mississippi, upon their…
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