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97 Miss. 476

Bond v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1910

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1910-03-15

From the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. Thomas H. Barrett, Judge. Bond, appellant, was indicted and tried and convicted of rape and appealed to the supreme court. The conviction was affirmed, without any written opinion being delivered. After-wards, appellant’s attorneys presented a vigorous suggestion of ■error.

Relies on Richburger v. State

Decided 1910-03-15

Smith, J.,

¶1delivered the following response to the suggestion of error.

¶2Appellant suggests that the court, in affirming the judgment of the court below, may have overlooked some vital matters in connection with the testimony of Edna Davis, the little ten year old girl upon whose testimony alone this defendant has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

¶3*477The matter referred to was certain language used by the trial judge in the- presence of the jury in ruling upon the admissibility of the testimony of this witness. This assignment of error was not considered by us when we first bad this cause under investigation, nor can it be considered by us now, for the reason that the language of the judge was not assigned in the court below as ground for a new trial in the motion therefor; consequently the exception reserved thereto at the time same was used was waived. Richburger v. State, 90 Miss. 806, 44 South. 772.

¶4Suggestion of error overruled.

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