Caleb v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Lowndes circuit court. Hamm, J. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for the murder of William Moore. The prisoner had, on a former trial, been convicted, and a new trial had been granted by this court.
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Error to Lowndes circuit court. Hamm, J. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for the murder of William Moore. The prisoner had, on a former trial, been convicted, and a new trial had been granted by this court. On the second trial the proof was substantially as follows: The deceased, William Moore, was overseer for one William Kidd at the time he was killed, the 25th April, 1857, and had been during all that year, and for about six weeks of the latter part of the year 1856. He resided on his employer’s plantation, in Lowndes county, with the slaves, there being no white…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, O. J.:
This was an indictment for murder, tried in the circuit court of Lowndes county, upon which the plaintiff in error, a slave, was convicted. A motion was made for a new trial upon the following grounds, to wit: 1. Because the verdict of the jury . was contrary to law and the evidence; 2. Because the court . erred in permitting a certain .witness to give his opinion as to , the instrument with which the wound upon the body of the deceased was inflicted; and 3. Because the jury were exposed to improper influences by the misconduct of the officers placed in charge of them.* Which…
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