Prine v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the circuit court of Lawrence county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, Judge. The appellant, J. H. Prine, was indicted and convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder one G. I. Chaine. The difficulty occurred at a country schoolhouse, on Sunday afternoon, the school exercises appropriate to the day having just been concluded. There were a number of witnesses to the shooting, but their testimony is conflicting as to who was the aggressor.
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Feom the circuit court of Lawrence county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, Judge. The appellant, J. H. Prine, was indicted and convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder one G. I. Chaine. The difficulty occurred at a country schoolhouse, on Sunday afternoon, the school exercises appropriate to the day having just been concluded. There were a number of witnesses to the shooting, but their testimony is conflicting as to who was the aggressor. The material facts testified to by the state’s witnesses are as follows: There had been bad feeling between the parties for some time, and, on…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
On the trial below, the accused offered to put in evidence these facts — viz.: That, on the day of the shooting, and prior thereto, Chaine, the person shot, wanted to swap knives with one O. Johnson, because Johnson’s knife blade was longer than Chaine’s, and that Chaine informed Johnson that he was going to have a row with Prine, the accused, that day, asking Johnson to stick to him. It was sought to further show by Johnson’s evidence that Chaine said to Johnson that there was only one man in the world he wanted to kill, and that man was Harman Prine. Though none of these facts were…
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