Jeffries v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Marshall county. Hon. James B. Boothe, Judge. Jeffries, the appellant, a negro, was indicted and tried for and convicted of a rape upon Beulah Price, a negro girl, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Prom the conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom the circuit court of Marshall county. Hon. James B. Boothe, Judge. Jeffries, the appellant, a negro, was indicted and tried for and convicted of a rape upon Beulah Price, a negro girl, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Prom the conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court. It was shown by the state that the girl, Beulah Price, a cousin of the defendant’s wife, and at the time about twelve years of age, -went to the field where defendant was working to carry him some water; that under the pretense of getting her to help him find a lost axe he decoyed her to a…
1Opinion of the Court
Calhoon, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.. While we would not, for this only, in this case, reverse for the refusal to give the twelfth charge asked by appellant, still we think it should have been given.
*647It was reversible error to admit what the assaulted girl said, the day after the assault, as to who committed it, in the absence of the accused.
It was reversible error to admit the testimony that John Jeffries took the assaulted girl to Tennessee to prevent her presence as a witness. The accused is not shown to have been privy to this, or even to have had any knowledge of it.
Reversed…
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