People v. Dunnigan

Respondent was convicted of murder in the first degree, and is now serving a life sentence in the State prison at Jackson.

The record discloses the fact that two other men, Knox and Smith, were in custody awaiting trial, charged with the same homicide, when respondent was arrested and confined in jail charged with some petty offense. He had testified on the examination of Knox and Smith before the justice and at the trial in circuit court. The testimony he had given tended to incriminate Knox and Smith, and to show his own innocence. While respondent was in jail, Bibbins, undersheriff, and…