Excerpt from Mississippi State Cases, Vol. 1 of 2: Being Criminal Cases Decided in the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and in the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi; From the June Term 1818 to the First Monday in January 1872

Br an Act of the Mississippi hgislature, approved February 2-1, 1854, the Attorney General was authorized to report anew the decisions in criminal cases, contained in these twenty-five volumes of Mississippi Reports. When the compiler of the pres ent volumes succeeded to the office of Attorney General, in the winter of 1869 the work so authorized had not yet ap peared. He was informed that Mr. Attorney General Glenn had, in his lifetime, commenced it but the result of his labors had been lost then, and it was not known, even by the most intimate friends of that distinguished gentleman, to what extent it had progressed. In the meantime the number of the volumes of the current series of the decisions of the appellate court, from which the criminal cases for the compilation were to be taken, had increased from twenty-five to forty-three. Recognizing the increased demand for the work, the legislature passed An Act to authorize a compilation of criminal laws, approved July 17, 1870, the pro visions of which are in all respects similar to the first, except that the cases to be reported anew are the cases contained in all Che volumes of Mississippi Reports; or such and so many of said decisions, as the Attorney General shall deem of sufficient importance, etc.

It is under the authority of the act last mentioned that these two volumes of Mississippi State Cases are presented to the profession. The two volumes contain in' a condensed and con venient form for reference and use, all the criminal cases of value ever reported, from the first. Term of the Supreme Court, in June, 1818, to the October term, 1871.

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