Beall v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the judgment of Hon. J. S. Yerger, Judge of the third judicial district, in refusing bail to Thomas T. Beall, the plaintiff’ in error.
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Error to the judgment of Hon. J. S. Yerger, Judge of the third judicial district, in refusing bail to Thomas T. Beall, the plaintiff’ in error. It appears from the record that Dr. Thomas T. Beall, the plaintiff in error, was indicted both for the murder of Dr. Selser and Mr. Griffin; that he had been once tried, before suing out the writ of habeas corpus, on the indictment for the murder of Sélser, and that the jury had been discharged on account of their being unable to agree. It appears from the evidence that both Selser and Griffin were hilled in a rencounter with Beall, on the night of…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, J.:
The plaintiff in error prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment of the circuit judge, refusing him bail on writ of habeas corpus.
The record shows that the plaintiff in error'is confined in the jail of Warren county under two' indictments for murder, originating out of the same transaction. The record further shows that the plaintiff in error was tried on one of said indictments in the circidt court of Warren- county, before a jury, which resulted in the discharge of the jury, because they were unable to agree on a verdict.
After a careful examination of the cases…
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