Harris v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Washington county. Shackleford J. The opinion of the court states the case. The court erred in refusing to allow the cross-examination of the witnesses for the state in relation to the feelings that existed between the accused and deceased at the time of the homicide, by showing that a previous difficulty had occurred which led to the homicide. Bish. Cr.
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Error to the circuit court of Washington county. Shackleford J. The opinion of the court states the case. The court erred in refusing to allow the cross-examination of the witnesses for the state in relation to the feelings that existed between the accused and deceased at the time of the homicide, by showing that a previous difficulty had occurred which led to the homicide. Bish. Cr. Law, § 618, et seq.; Head v. the State, 44 Miss. 753; Wesley v. the State, 37 ib. 327 ; Newcomb v.the State, Morris State Cases, 1303, and cases cited; 2 Bish. Cr. Law, 617; 3 Greenl. Ev. 124; 1 Archb. Cr. Pr.…
1Opinion of the Court
Tarbell, J.:
At the May special term of the Washington county circuit court, 1872, Lewis Harris was indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of murder. A motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment being overruled, a writ of error was prayed out. The defense in the court below appears to have been conducted with determined energy, and a reversal is strenuously urged here in a labored argument, but the facts and the law are strongly adverse to the accused. The circumstances of the killing, as testified to by several witnesses, were these: Harris, according to some of the witnesses, with a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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