Tennison v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of Lowndes county. IioN. EugeNe 0. Sykes, Judge. Tennison, appellant, was indicted for the murder of one Morris Freese. He moved the court for a change of venue on the ground .that be could not secure a fair and impartial trial in the county. The facts shown on this application are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
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FROM the circuit court of Lowndes county. IioN. EugeNe 0. Sykes, Judge. Tennison, appellant, was indicted for the murder of one Morris Freese. He moved the court for a change of venue on the ground .that be could not secure a fair and impartial trial in the county. The facts shown on this application are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The application was denied, appellant was put upon his trial, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years, from which conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court. Twenty or more…
1Opinion of the Court
WhitfieKd, C. tT.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the motion for a change of venue in this case, a large number of witnesses were examined, both on the part of the defendant and the state; and of the witnesses introduced for the defendant it is to be said that they came from nearly all the walks of life, and from every part of the county, and that their testimony, summed up, was of the strongest possible character to show that the appellant could not have had, at that term of the court, a fair and impartial trial in the county. The testimony shows substantially that public sentiment ran…
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