Barcus v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. Cteo.E. Brown, Judge. The plaintiff in error was indicted at the March term, 1872, of the Warren county circuit court, for shooting with intent to kill and murder one Sandy Mitchell. He was arraigned and* put upon his trial, and the proof shows that he shot at Henry Creighton with intent, as he declared, to kill Creighton and not Mitchell. The jury found him guilty as charged in the indietment.
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Error to the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. Cteo.E. Brown, Judge. The plaintiff in error was indicted at the March term, 1872, of the Warren county circuit court, for shooting with intent to kill and murder one Sandy Mitchell. He was arraigned and* put upon his trial, and the proof shows that he shot at Henry Creighton with intent, as he declared, to kill Creighton and not Mitchell. The jury found him guilty as charged in the indietment. A motion for a new trial was made, and overruled by the court, and plaintiff in error prosecuted a writ of error to this court and asks for a reversal.…
1Opinion of the CourtTaRbell, J.
At the last March term of the circuit court of Warren county the plaintiff in error wras indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of shooting at Sandy Mitchell with intent to kill. From. the judgment against him the accused prosecuted a writ of. *18error, and asks here a reversal of that judgment upon several grounds not essential to repeat or discuss. Upon the trial the right of the city police to arrest vagrants, without warrant, was made a prominent point, and is again pressed in the argument in this court, but we do not think that question involved, at present. There is a fatal error,…
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