Cannon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Claiborne County. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge, did not sit in this case, but Hon. Ralph North presided by interchange.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Claiborne County. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge, did not sit in this case, but Hon. Ralph North presided by interchange. The record, after the entry of the organization of a grand jury with S. S. Neely as foreman, at the May term of the court, 1877, recited that, on June 7,1877, the grand jury came into open court in lawful manner, and “ upon their oaths and through their foreman, S. S. Neely, presented to the court the following true bills of indictment, numbered respectively, 26, 27, 28, and 29, in red ink, upon the tipper right-hand corner of each of said…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell,' J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence of the finding and presentment in court of the indictment by the grand jury is sufficient, and the motion in arrest of judgment was properly overruled.
An effort was made to show that Caroline Austin had testified, before the justice of the peace, to certain matters as to which she testified differently on the trial in the Circuit Court, and it. was proposed to show that the counsel for the accused had commented, in the presence of Caroline Austin before the justice of the peace, on the impossibility of the truth of her testimony in…
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