Byrd v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
THIS cause came up on a writ of error from Warren county. The prisoner, Byrd, a free person of color, was indicted at the Warren circuit asan accessory to a slave named Daniel, in the murder of Joel Cameron. The indictment further charged, that said Daniel had been convicted at a previous term of the county court, and that said Byrd did counsel, hire and procure said slave Daniel to murder the deceased.
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THIS cause came up on a writ of error from Warren county. The prisoner, Byrd, a free person of color, was indicted at the Warren circuit asan accessory to a slave named Daniel, in the murder of Joel Cameron. The indictment further charged, that said Daniel had been convicted at a previous term of the county court, and that said Byrd did counsel, hire and procure said slave Daniel to murder the deceased. The indictment against Byrd was filed at the special February term of the Warren court, 1833, to which the counsel for the prisoner demurred, and assigned the following causes: 1. It does not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
This cause comes before us upon a writ of error to the circuit court of Warren county.
Questions of a highly interesting character, and of deep importance to the criminal jurisprudence of this state, are presented by the record, and require the decision of this court.
In the examination of the principles involved in this case, the desire to arrive at true results, has been powerfully stimulated by the conviction, that upon the conclusion to which I have come, depends not only the fate of the unfortunate man now in charge of the court; but to some extent, at least, the repose and well being of…
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