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109 Miss. 356

Simmons v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1915

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1915-03-15

Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Tom Simmons was convicted of murder and appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The attorney-general says that when the defendant was arraigned he waived a special venire and that the court afterward asked him if he desired one. The record does not support hut contradicts both statements.

Decided 1915-03-15

Cook, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The record discloses that the defendant seasonably, made a motion demanding that a special venire be summoned to try his case. Much is said in the briefs about when and how this motion was made, but the appellate court is confined to the facts made by the record. The record shows that the motion was made in the form and within the time fixed by the statute, and that the motion for no reason apparent in the record, was overruled by the trial court.

¶3The defendant, as a matter of right, given by the statute, was entitled to a special venire; and, this right having been denied by the court, dt follows that the judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial.

¶4Reversed and remanded.

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