Riggs v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Monroe circuit court. Habéis, J. James Higgs was indicted in the court below, for the murder of one Joel E. Hunt, which was alleged in the indictment to have been committed on the 21st day of September, 1852. At the September term, 1854, of said court, he was tried and convicted of murder; a motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and tfie prisoner sentenced to be hung.
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Error to Monroe circuit court. Habéis, J. James Higgs was indicted in the court below, for the murder of one Joel E. Hunt, which was alleged in the indictment to have been committed on the 21st day of September, 1852. At the September term, 1854, of said court, he was tried and convicted of murder; a motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and tfie prisoner sentenced to be hung. A bill of exceptions was filed to the judgment of the court, and the case comes to this court on writ of error. 1. The record nowhere shows that the offense was committed in Monroe county. John L. Tindall, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Handy, J.:
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted in Monroe circuit court, of the murder of one Joel E. Hunt. A motion was thereupon made in hjs behalf to set aside the verdict, for several reasons assigned ; which motion was overruled and a bill of exceptions taken, upon which the case is brought here for review.
We will proceed to examine the grounds, upon which it is contended that the judgment should be reversed, in the order in which they are presented by the counsel for the plaintiff in eiTor.
The first of these is, that it does not appear by the record, that the offense was…
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