The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-03

brought IN verdict OF gully. On motion for
new trial, it was proven to the Court that some Of
the Jurors during their deliberations, partOok Of
sPirituous liquor, upon which the Judge set the
verdict aside, granted the prisoner new trial,
and fined each juror who partoOk Of the spirits,
fifty dollars.
The other was a charge of murder preferred a.
gains. George w Bradshaw for killing one Lara
mer. On the trial the State introduced one wit |
ness who proved the killing by the confession Of
the prisoner and the dying declarations Of the kill
led. Two others also testified to the dying de-
clarations,
The prisoner by his counsel introduced only one
witness, who proved quarrel between the prs-
oner and the deceased some few hours before the
killing took place, and that soon after this quarrel
the deceased was heard to make some serious
threat against the prisoner.
In this cause the State was represented by r c
Perry and VIM F Pugh, esqs, and the prisoner de-
Tended by Attorneys Holt, Archer and Crenshaw.
The prisoners counsel rested his cause principal
y upon two grounds ;--that the deed was done on
the impulse Ofthe mOment,--and, from the previ.
Gus threat made by the deceased,-the prisoner
was justified upon the close Of the arguments,
and the instructions asked both the part Of the
prosecution and defence,.-the jury retired, and
after an absence Of about two hours, returned into
Court with the verdict I'VE, the jury, find the
prisoner Guilty in manner and form charged in
the bill of indictment.--Several motions were
made by the counsel for the prisoner, to obtain a
new trial, all Of which were Overuled. At the
close of the term the unfortupate culprit was
brought for the last time to the bar, receive his
awful sentence. When asked by the Judge if he
had any thing farther to say why the sentence OF
the law should not be pronounced against him, he
answered in a clear and distinct voice, IL have
none, sir. His Honor then commanded him to a
rise and receive his sentence, and in feeling and
pathetic address Of about fifteen minutes duration
portrayed to him in glowing colOrs the magnitude
of the offence for which he had been convicted
The business Of the sentence, which il was his
limPerious duty to pronounce upon him.--The aw.
fuI condition to which he was then reduced
The certainty of his doom, and the immutablity
of the Law. He said that as a man he felt deeply
for him and commiserated his fate; but as a Judg,
and the oracle of the law, he was forbid to exer
else either his feeling or his sympathy.-That i
was not he, but the law, whose organ he was, tina
consigned him to that death which he was abou
to sufier.-That from the mercy of the law he haC
nothing to hope.-That his span of life was nearly
run-his end in sight-and that for hope and for
giveness he must only look to that great and mer
ciful Being who had said, "ThOugh your sins b,
as scarlet, will make them as white as wool.'
+ You will be taken from the bar of Justice whert
you now stand, to the Jail from whence you came
and there remain until the fifteenth day of JUL
next, on which day the Sheriff will take you tt
the gallows, and between the hours of eight In tn
morning and four in the evening, he will ham
you by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead
May God in his wisdom have mercy upon you
r sou, Amen.
This is the first judicial sentence of death eve
t passed upon any person in this county.