White v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Tippah circuit court. Olayton, X Samuel White, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the court below for grand larceny. At the September term, 1868, he appeared and pleaded a pardon, granted May 4th, 1868, in bar of the indictment. On this plea the judgment of the court was “that defendant be discharged, and go hence without day, and. that he pay the clerk, sheriff, and witnesses’ costs, which have accrued in the case, and that execution issue therefor.”
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Error to Tippah circuit court. Olayton, X Samuel White, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the court below for grand larceny. At the September term, 1868, he appeared and pleaded a pardon, granted May 4th, 1868, in bar of the indictment. On this plea the judgment of the court was “that defendant be discharged, and go hence without day, and. that he pay the clerk, sheriff, and witnesses’ costs, which have accrued in the case, and that execution issue therefor.” To re- • verse this judgment a writ of error is prosecuted, and the error assigned here is that the court erred in rendering a…
1Opinion of the Court
Shackelford, C. J.:
The plaintiff in error was indicted at the September term, 1866, of the Tippah circuit court, for robbery.
At the September term, 1868, of the said court, the plaintiff in error appeared, and was arraigned by the court, when he pleaded a pardon for the offense of which he stood charged in said indictment, and in bar of the same.
The pardon was under the great seal of the state, granted by B. G-. Humphreys, governor of the state of Mississippi, dated on ■ the 14th of May, 1868, and filed with the plea.
*1580Tbe language of tbe pardon is: “ A full pardon for tbe crime ■wherewith he…
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- Ex parte GregoryMississippi Supreme Court · 1878