Woodsides v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
ERROR to Wilkinson circuit court. The plaintiff in error was tried on an indictment for murder, at the October Term of the Wilkinson circuit court, 1835, before the Hon. Thomas A. Willis. The cause is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. cited Rev. Code, p. 134; 1 Chitty, 270; 4 Hawkins; Peck’s Rep. 310; Rev. Code, 116; 1 Chitty, 419; Jury Law, Act of Legislature, 1830; 1 Coke, 156, A; Leach, 87; Chitty, 165.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
At the October term of 1835, of the circuit court'of Wilkinson county, Samuel Woodsides, the prisoner at the bar, was tried and convicted of the murder of Hudson P. Lipscomb, and having received sentence, he has, by writ of error, removed his cause into this court, and asks a reversal of the judgment against him for several errors and irregularities, alleged to exist in the proceedings of the court below.
As the questions which are presented by the record, and which it will be necessary to determine, are disconnected and independent, we will pursue the order in which they stand in the…
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