Parisot v. Helm
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Hon. W. B. CUNNINGHAM, Judge. The facts necessary to a full understanding of the principles .-announced will be found in the opinion of the court.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Hon. W. B. CUNNINGHAM, Judge. The facts necessary to a full understanding of the principles .-announced will be found in the opinion of the court. It is assigned for error : ■ 1. The court erred in proceeding further in the .cause after “the confession of the plea to the jurisdiction. 2. In not disposing of the plea to the jurisdiction. 3. In proceeding to try the cause on an amended declaration without iin issue. 4. Iu not rendering judgment for the defendant on the plea, confessed. 5. In permitting the amendment of the declaration. 1. The suit is…
1Opinion of the Court
Simrall, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.: It appears, from what purports to be a transcript from the history of the cause, that at the- November term, 1874, there •was a jury trial on an issue joined on the plea of not guilty.
Instructions appropriate to the character’of grievance- co'm-'plained of* and of defenses admissible under the general issue, were, at the motion of the respective parties, given to the .jury. A motion for a new trial was made -by the plaintiff hi error, which was overruled; no bill of exceptions was taken during the trial; nor to the decision of the court on…
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