Legal Opinion
Henry v. Mississippi
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1965No. 6PublishedCited by 1,108 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Petitioner was convicted of disturbing the peace, by indecent proposals to and offensive contact with an 18-year-old hitchhiker to whom he is said to have given a ride in his car. The trial judge charged the jury that “you cannot find the defendant guilty on the unsupported and uncorroborated testimony of the complainant alone.” The petitioner’s federal claim derives from the admission of a police officer’s testimony, introduced to corroborate the' hitchhiker’s testimony. The Mississippi Supreme Court held that the officer’s testimony was improperly admitted as the fruit of “an unlawful…
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