Brown v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. Jno. H. Mitchell, Judge. Albert Brown was convicted of manslaughter and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. It was error for the court to exclude the testimony of O. T. Trapp, sheriff, and Norbin Jones, chancery clerk of Lee county, to whom Henry Brown had confessed that he was the guilty party and not the appellant.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. Jno. H. Mitchell, Judge. Albert Brown was convicted of manslaughter and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. It was error for the court to exclude the testimony of O. T. Trapp, sheriff, and Norbin Jones, chancery clerk of Lee county, to whom Henry Brown had confessed that he was the guilty party and not the appellant. The confession and the testimony of the sheriff is in the record, but was not given in the presence of the jury. It shows that Henry Brown had seen his brother suffer for his wrong as long as he could,…
1Opinion of the Court
McWillie, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant was indicted for the murder of Alonzo Addison, and, his previous conviction for manslaughter having been reversed (54 South. 305), he was again tried and convicted of the same offense, and from this second conviction the present appeal is prosecuted.
On the second trial the defense offered to prove that Henry Brown, a brother of the accused, who had never been indicted, stated to the sheriff and chancery clerk of the county that his brother had suffered long enough about the matter, that he was the man who slew the…
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