Hill v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Washington county. HoN. R. W. WilliamsoN, Judge. Appellant was convicted of murder, and appeals from a judgment condemning him to be hanged.
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From the circuit court of Washington county. HoN. R. W. WilliamsoN, Judge. Appellant was convicted of murder, and appeals from a judgment condemning him to be hanged. The indictment contains two counts, the first charging him with the murder of one Adeline Cutchen, and the second charging him, at the same time and place, with having assaulted Adeline Cutchen with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol, and, with malice aforethought, at-temptéd to discharge the same at her with intent to kill and murder her. The facts touching the only question passed upon by the court are stated in the opinion. It…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The application for a continuance was based upon the absence of eight witnesses by whom the prisoner expected to make out his defense of an aWn. It showed that Mary Jane Baker, one of the absent witnesses, had been in attendance as a witness at the preceding term of the court, and that she had then been put under recognizance to again appear at the then term of the court, but that she was unable to be present because of illness in childbirth. From the sworn application it further appeared that Richard Baker, another of the absent witnesses, had been duly subpoenaed to attend. Both witnesses…
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