Huggins v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Millek, Judge. Tony Huggins was convicted of murder and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Millek, Judge. Tony Huggins was convicted of murder and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. On cross-examination of the main prosecuting witness for the state, C. R. Gardner, the defendant, sought to show that Givens, the deceased, and defendant engaged in a difficulty on the morning of- the homicide in which deceased was the aggressor, and that without any cause on defendant’s part, Givens, the deceased, assaulted and struck the defendant and chased appellant with a scant-ling, one by three by four feet…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of murder. The homicide seems to have been the sequel of a difficulty which had taken place between deceased and appellant at an earlier hour of the same day on which the homicide occurred.
On cross-examination of two of the state’s witnesses, counsel for appellant attempted to bring out the details' of this former difficulty, presumably for the purpose of showing that the deceased was the aggressor therein, and also to show that in the progress thereof deceased had threatened to kill appellant. This evidence was objected to and excluded for the…
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