Campbell v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Marion county. I-Ion. A. E. YVeathersby, Judge. Bobert Campbell urns convicted of murder, and sentenced to death, and he appeals. On the question of newly discovered evidence, learned counsel for the state cites many cases in support of the state’s theory of this case, none of which, however departs from the rules followed by our own court.
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Appeal from circuit court of Marion county. I-Ion. A. E. YVeathersby, Judge. Bobert Campbell urns convicted of murder, and sentenced to death, and he appeals. On the question of newly discovered evidence, learned counsel for the state cites many cases in support of the state’s theory of this case, none of which, however departs from the rules followed by our own court. In the Cooper case, 53 Miss. 393, new trial was denied because appellant was guilty of laches, in refusing to cross-examine witnesses for the state on the question of the value of a gun, and in neglecting to introduce available…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This is an appeal from a conviction of murder. The state’s case was made by the testimony of two witnesses and the dying declaration of the deceased, from which it appears that the deceased and Henderson Jackson, one of the state’s witnesses, were in the front room of a cabin when the appellant fired three times from the outside through one of the windows of the cabin, thereby killing the deceased.
According to the testimony of the appellant, who was the only other eyewitness who testified, he, Henderson Jackson, and the deceased were together in the room, and that he shot and killed the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weathersby v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
3Cited by4 opinions
- Powers v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
- Steward v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1929
- Williamson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
- Hart v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1928