Cartwright v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county, Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Jack and Ed Cartwright, alias Swanson, were jointly indicted for the murder of Clif Hines, a policeman, in the city of Jackson. The evidence disclosed that the accused had come to Jackson only a few days before the homicide, and had taken up their temporary abode in a vacant and untenantable house in the suburbs of the city.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county, Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Jack and Ed Cartwright, alias Swanson, were jointly indicted for the murder of Clif Hines, a policeman, in the city of Jackson. The evidence disclosed that the accused had come to Jackson only a few days before the homicide, and had taken up their temporary abode in a vacant and untenantable house in the suburbs of the city. Hines, accompanied by another policeman, Walker G-uice, went to the house for the purpose of arresting the Cartwrights as suspicious characters. While at or near the house, both…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The errors complained of in the first and second assignments, if errors they were, need not be considered. They proved harmless, for the action of the jury in acquitting one of the defendants, and in finding the other guilty of manslaughter, demonstrates that the homicide committed eighteen months before did not furnish, to the mind of the jury, the motive for the homicide charged in this prosecution. Evidently, the jury rejected the state’s theory that the killing was murder and that the motive for its commission was to prevent arrest for the prior offense in another state, and so the…
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