Hill v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Tazoo county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Hill, appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of one Samuel Green, was convicted of manslaughter on his first trial and sentenced to the penitentiary. He appealed from the conviction to the supreme court and the judgment was reversed and a new trial granted him.
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From the circuit court of Tazoo county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Hill, appellant, was indicted and tried for the murder of one Samuel Green, was convicted of manslaughter on his first trial and sentenced to the penitentiary. He appealed from the conviction to the supreme court and the judgment was reversed and a new trial granted him. See Hill v. State, 94 Miss. 391, 49 South. 145. Upon remand of the case appellant was again tried for and convicted of manslaughter, again sentenced to the penitentiary and again appealed to the supreme court. The facts upon which the decision, on this the…
1Opinion of the Court
McLain, C.
At the October term, 1909, of the circuit court of Yazoo county, the appellant, Hill, was tried, convicted, and sentenced *307to the state penitentiary for a term of two years for manslaughter, from which judgment and sentence he prosecutes this appeal.
This case was before us at the March term, 1909, of this ■court, and in reversing a former judgment in it the court said, speaking through Judge Whiteield: “The testimony this case shows that the deceased, Green, was physically twice as ■stout and strong a man as the appellant, and that he was also a man of vindictive and violent…
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