Pruitt v. State

McGowen, J„

delivered the opinion of the court.

On an indictment for murder, the appellant, Ervin Pruitt, was tried before a jury of Lauderdale county, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.

The indictment is in words and figures as follows:

“Indictment.

‘‘ The State of Mississippi, Lauderdale County.

“In the circuit court of Lauderdale County, at the August term in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-one. The grand jury for the state of Mississippi, taken from the body of good and lawful men of Lauderdale county, in the state of Mississippi, impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire…