Long v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Jefferson Comity. Hon. Uriah Millsaps, Judge. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the November term, 1874, -of the circuit court of Franklin county, for the murder of one .Judson Bailey. The venue was changed to Jefferson county, where the case was tried. All the material facts detailed by the witnesses are set out fully in the opinion of the court.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of Jefferson Comity. Hon. Uriah Millsaps, Judge. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the November term, 1874, -of the circuit court of Franklin county, for the murder of one .Judson Bailey. The venue was changed to Jefferson county, where the case was tried. All the material facts detailed by the witnesses are set out fully in the opinion of the court. The court, among other instructions to the jury, gave for the state the following: 2. “ If the jury believe from the evidence that the defendant shot and killed the deceased, with a pistol, a deadly weapon, then the…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
Plaintiff in error was convicted of the murder of Judson Bailejr, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The attendant circumstances were these: On the first day of the November term, 1874, of the circuit court of Franklin county, plaintiff in error appeared before the grand jury and presented Mantón Lee, the father-in-law of Bailey, to that body for indictment for having slandered a female relative of plaintiff in error. That he was going to take this action seems to have been known in advance. On the day before he had looked at a pistol with a view of purchasing it. He offered at the…
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