Cook v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe circuit court of, first district, Coahoma county. B[on. Samuel 0. Cook, Judge. Cook and Woods, appellants, were indicted, tried, and convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicants and. appealed to the supreme court. Appellants owned and operated a steamboat and did a ferry business across the Mississippi Biver from a point in Coahoma county to a point in Arkansas, on the opposite side of the stream.
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From tbe circuit court of, first district, Coahoma county. B[on. Samuel 0. Cook, Judge. Cook and Woods, appellants, were indicted, tried, and convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicants and. appealed to the supreme court. Appellants owned and operated a steamboat and did a ferry business across the Mississippi Biver from a point in Coahoma county to a point in Arkansas, on the opposite side of the stream. The evidence for the state was to the effect that the sale in question was made east of the thread, or middle, of the stream as the river now flows. Appellants contended that the true…
1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.
The evidence sufficiently shows venue. Section 361 of the code, establishing the boundary of Coahoma county “to the river,” and sec. 2, p. 365, laws 1892, fixing the western boundary of the first judicial district of that county “between said given line and the Mississippi River,” and code, § 347, giving counties jurisdiction “to the western boundary of the state,” must all be read in pari materia with § 345, fixing the boundary of the state as “beginning on the Mississippi River, meaning thereby the center of said river, or thread of the stream,” etc. The middle line of that river marks the…
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