Mississippi Supreme Court March 15, 1893 (Gibson v. State)

Cooper, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant has been convicted of the crime of murder, and sentenced to capital punishment.

He is not represented in this court by counsel, but, in cases of this character, it is our custom to scrutinize the record and affirm or reverse according as it shall appear that the *555conviction was properly or improperly had, and without reference to