Stanley v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Oarroll county. Hon..William F. Stevens, Judge. Stanley, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted .under Code 1892, sec. 1255, of having mingled poison with water, with intent thereby to murder one Heggie.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Oarroll county. Hon..William F. Stevens, Judge. Stanley, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted .under Code 1892, sec. 1255, of having mingled poison with water, with intent thereby to murder one Heggie. The statute is as follows: Poisons — Mingling Poisons with Food, Drinh, or Medicine, Poisoning Spring, Well, Reservoir of Water, etc. — Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food, drink, or medicine with intent to kill or injure any human being, who shall willfully poison any well, spring, or reservoir of water, shall, upon…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The corpus delicti cannot be proved by the confession of an accused person. Without the confession in the case at bar there is no proof of it. The corpus delicti here is the mingling of poison with water. The water was bitter, and was spit out without harmful effect. It is not shown that there was poison in it, althought the water in the bucket was at hand.
Under Osborne v. Sate, 64 Miss., 320, 1 South., 349, this case must be Reversed and remanded.
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