Daner Ford v. State of Mississippi

KITCHENS, JUSTICE,

DISSENTING:

¶45. I respectfully dissent for two reasons. First, I find that the flight instruction was not warranted in this case. Second, as I previously have written, I would abolish the flight instruction altogether.

¶46. In the present case, Instruction S-7 informed the jury:

[T]hat “flight” is a circumstance from which guilty knowledge and fear may be inferred. If you believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, DANER FORD, did flee or go into hiding, such flight or hiding is to be considered in connection with all other events in…