Nixon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Pontotoc county. This case is brought, by writ of error, from the judgment of the Hon. Stephen Adams, judge of the ninth judicial district, upon a writ of habeas corpus, upon the application of the prisoner, then in custody of the sheriff of Itawamba county. The petition for the writ was dated April, 1843, and stated that the prisoner was in custody, under the charge of having murdered Geo. W. “Wiley, late of Pontotoc county.
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Error to the circuit court of Pontotoc county. This case is brought, by writ of error, from the judgment of the Hon. Stephen Adams, judge of the ninth judicial district, upon a writ of habeas corpus, upon the application of the prisoner, then in custody of the sheriff of Itawamba county. The petition for the writ was dated April, 1843, and stated that the prisoner was in custody, under the charge of having murdered Geo. W. “Wiley, late of Pontotoc county. That the indictment was preferred against him, under which he was then in prison, at March term, 1843, of the Pontotoc circuit court; and…
1Opinion of the Court
Thachek, ,T.:
This was a writ of error from the judgment of the judge of the ninth judicial district, upon an investigation, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus.
The plaintiff in error is under indictment for murder. He claimed his discharge upon two grounds: that he had been deprived, through the default of the state, of his constitutional privilege of a speedy trial; and that the indictment by process, under which he was now held in imprisonment, is null and void.
*230One who is prosecuted by indictment or information has, by the constitution, his right to a speedy and impartial trial. He shall…
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