Quinn v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Grenada county. HoN. J. A. Teat, Judge. Simpson Quinn was convicted of manslaughter and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The testimony of the physicians show that deceased died with pneumonia: Men are not hung or imprisoned in Mississippi because one man being or having been struck in a quarrel, dies with pneumonia.
Read the full summary
Appeal from the circuit court of Grenada county. HoN. J. A. Teat, Judge. Simpson Quinn was convicted of manslaughter and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The testimony of the physicians show that deceased died with pneumonia: Men are not hung or imprisoned in Mississippi because one man being or having been struck in a quarrel, dies with pneumonia. The instruction given the state absolutely puts the burden of proof on the defendant and compels him to carry it throughout; the burden of proof was on the state to trace the death to the blow; it did nothing of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Appellant was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter. He and Gus Commander, the deceased, had a controversy, in which he struck Commander on the head with an empty whisky bottle and fractured his skull. The wound was not in its nature mortal, according to the testimony of the attending physicians; but some time thereafter Commander contracted pneumonia, and died about two months after the infliction of the wound, according to the testimony of the physicians, from the combined effect of the wound and pneumonia. He would have recovered from the effect of either, according to their…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Crum v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1886
3Cited by6 opinions
- Hall v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1928
- Thompson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1954
- Schroer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1964
- Houston v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1954
- Brandy Nicole Williams v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2014
1 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.