Cooper v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pontotoc County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. R. W. Pannell, an old man, who lived in Pontotoc County, hired Jim Collier, and lodged him near his house.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pontotoc County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. R. W. Pannell, an old man, who lived in Pontotoc County, hired Jim Collier, and lodged him near his house. While Addison Isbell was working in his field, on June 15, 1880, the appellant came to borrow a plow, and told him that he had found a snake’s head wrapped in a piece of cloth, which looked like Jim Collier’s coat-lining, lying in his field, and that he believed Collier put it there to trick him, and somebody would go dead about it; and that, if Collier did not quit troubling him, he would get him. He informed…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The first assignment of error is without merit. The Constitution, art. 1, § 7, entitles the accused to a trial by an impai’tial jury of the county, but it is left to the legislature to prescribe the qualifications of jurors, subject to the prohibition of a property qualification, and to regulate the mode of obtaining a jury of the county; and the mode provided by the Code of 1880 is free from constitutional objection.
The action of the court in excluding as incompetent jurors those who declared themselves opposed to capital punishment was correct. Spain v. State, ante, 19.
The testimony of R.…
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