81 Miss. 249 | Miss. | 1902
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is no material difference between the evidence in this cause and that in the case of Supreme Lodge v. Fletcher, 78 Miss., 377; 28 South., 872; 29 South., 523. The evidence before the circuit court of appeals of the United States does not materially vary the case. It seems to us very obvious from the opinion of Shelby, circuit judge (Fidelity, etc., Co. v. Lover, 111 Fed., 773; s.c., 49 C. C. A., 602), that the circuit court of appeals would have affirmed the action of the district judge if he had granted the peremptory instruction. That court distinctly says that the evidence ‘£ seemed to show, almost if not quite conclusively, that the deceased held the pistol that fired the shot,” but because it was not “absolutely certain that he committed suicide, ’ ’ from the evidence, the court was
Affirmed.