Mississippi State Cases: Being Criminal Cases Decided in the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and in the Supreme Court, of the State of Mississippi : from the June Term 1818 to the First Monday in January 1872, Inclusive, Volume 2 |
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Page 1037
... slave , chained him ; and whilst they were together alone , he asked the slave why he had burned the gin - house - assuming , in the form in which he put the question , that the slave was guilty , but used no force to extort the ...
... slave , chained him ; and whilst they were together alone , he asked the slave why he had burned the gin - house - assuming , in the form in which he put the question , that the slave was guilty , but used no force to extort the ...
Page 1038
... slave was offered as a witness in behalf of the state , and for the purpose of proving confessions by the prisoner of his guilt . The witness testified that the prisoner was taken up about sixty miles from the place where the burn- ing ...
... slave was offered as a witness in behalf of the state , and for the purpose of proving confessions by the prisoner of his guilt . The witness testified that the prisoner was taken up about sixty miles from the place where the burn- ing ...
Page 1039
... slave should make confessions which would forfeit his life ; for he would thereby sustain a loss to the amount of one - half of the value of the slave . Nor is it to be presumed that the slave will make confessions to his master tending ...
... slave should make confessions which would forfeit his life ; for he would thereby sustain a loss to the amount of one - half of the value of the slave . Nor is it to be presumed that the slave will make confessions to his master tending ...
Page 1051
... slave . The accused were also slaves , and were charged with the murder of another slave ; all belonging to the same master . The witness , on the second day after the killing , was charged by his master with a knowledge of it ; which ...
... slave . The accused were also slaves , and were charged with the murder of another slave ; all belonging to the same master . The witness , on the second day after the killing , was charged by his master with a knowledge of it ; which ...
Page 1054
... slave , for the defense , testified that on the Sunday that Ely was killed , Ned came to her cabin and borrowed a coat ; this was just before sundown . Washington , a slave , for the defense , testified that he saw Ned about an hour ...
... slave , for the defense , testified that on the Sunday that Ely was killed , Ned came to her cabin and borrowed a coat ; this was just before sundown . Washington , a slave , for the defense , testified that he saw Ned about an hour ...
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Popular passages
Page 1222 - And these may be reduced to three principal or primary articles ; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of private property...
Page 1736 - That the framers of the constitution did not intend to restrain the States in the regulation of their civil institutions, adopted for internal government, and that the instrument they have given us is not to be so construed, may be admitted.
Page 1183 - We think, that in all cases of this nature, the law has invested Courts of justice with the authority to discharge a jury from giving any verdict, whenever, in their opinion, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the act, or "the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated.
Page 1817 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 1183 - ... manifest necessity for the act, or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated. They are to exercise a sound discretion on the subject; and it is impossible to define all the circumstances, which would render it proper to interfere. To be sure, the power ought to be used with the greatest caution, under urgent circumstances, and for very plain and obvious causes; and in capital cases especially, courts should be extremely careful how they interfere with any of the chances of life,...
Page 1370 - An assault is any attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another...
Page 1786 - French, did then and there feloniously and willfully kill, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the state of New York and their dignity.
Page 1651 - And thus far, touching the forms of indictment, wherein generally we are to take notice that in favour of life great strictnesses have been in all times required in points of indictments, and the truth is, that it is grown to be a blemish and inconvenience in the law, and the administration thereof; more offenders escape by the over-easy ear given to exceptions in indictments, than by their own innocence...
Page 1430 - In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity, are to be satisfactorily proved by the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him; for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth.
Page 1922 - Express malice is when one, with a sedate deliberate mind and formed design, doth kill another : which formed design is evidenced by external circumstances discovering that inward intention; as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm.