Green v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Marshall county. R. Miller, J. George N. Green was indicted in the circuit court of De Soto county, at the November term thereof, for the murder of William L. Mormon; and subsequently the venue was changed to Marshall county, where Green was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged.
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Error to the circuit court of Marshall county. R. Miller, J. George N. Green was indicted in the circuit court of De Soto county, at the November term thereof, for the murder of William L. Mormon; and subsequently the venue was changed to Marshall county, where Green was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. The facts of the case are in substance, as shown for the state, that a short time previous to the killing, which took place on Sunday, the 19th of September, 1852, Green went to the house of Suddith, who was his neighbor, and asked S. it* he had ever heard Mormon say that he had…
1Opinion of the Court
Handy, J.:
This was an indictment for murder, in the circuit court of De Soto county, from which there was a change of venue to Marshall circuit court, where the prisoner was tiled and convicted of murder. Many objections are urged to the proceedings in the court where the indictment Was found, and in the court where the case was tried, as sufficient grounds for reversing the judgment. These objections we will proceed to examine.
First. It is said that the record does not sufficiently show that the indictment appearing in the record, is the indictment found by the grand jury against the…
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