Hale v. State

I reluctantly concur with the majority, for I, too, would easily have found Hale guilty. It is a job for the jury in the first instance, however, not this Court. We have come up with two rules in perjury eases. One that the two-witness requirement is one that must be conveyed to the jury by instruction in all cases. Nash v. State, 244 Miss. 857, 147 So.2d 499 (1962). The other rule, less frequently stated, is that we can ignore this requirement if we believe that the jury reached the right verdict. Gordon v. State, 158 Miss. 185, 128 So. 769 (1930). The Gordon rule requires this Court to…