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78 Miss. 300

Gilbert v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1900

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1900-10-15

From the circuit court of Tunica county. Hon. Frank E. Larkin, Judge. Edward Gilbert, the appellant, was indicted for the murder of one Sandy Neill, was tried and convicted, in the court below, of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years, from which conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court.

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Decided 1900-10-15

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1953

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Whitfield, C. J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The first and fourth assignments of error are well taken.

¶3We would not reverse for the first, but the second error (fourth assignment) is fatal. See authorities cited in brief of appellant’s counsel.

¶4Reversed and remanded.

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