Fisher v. State

John Fisher, the appellant, Rayford Leonard, Lindsey C'oleman and Albert Hobbs, all negroes, were indicted for the murder of one Grover 0. Nicholas in the circuit court of Coahoma county, Míiss. The case was here on a former appeal from a conviction, and is reported in 145 Miss. 116, 110 So. 361, wherein the case then before the court is fully stated, and the judgment was reversed for the admission of certain confessions alleged to have been extorted from the defendant and his coindictees by unlawful methods.

When the case was remanded to the circuit court of Coahoma county, a motion for a…