Ex parte Mormon
Mississippi Supreme Court
'Appeal from the circuit court of Pontotoc county. HoN. Claude Clayton-, Judge. Application in habeas corpus proceeding by Oscar Mor-man for bail, application denied and relator appeals-. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtPotter, J.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit judge refusing to grant relator, Oscar Morman, bail in habeas corpus proceedings.
Oscar Morman was convicted at the September, 1914, term of the circuit court of Pontotoc county for murder, and appealed to the supreme court, and the case was reversed. After considering the testimony in this case, including very material testimony excluded in the original trial of the case in the court below, and upon which a reversal of the former conviction was secured, we are of the opinion “that the proof of defendant’s guilt is not evident, nor the…
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