Odom v. State

The opinion handed down in this case will be found reported in 94 So. 233.

The appellant contends that the' law declared in the Pittman case, 101 Miss. 553, 58 So. 532, which was overruled in the former opinion in the present case, is never-the]ess the law of this case, because at the time of the commission of the alleged crime by him the law as declared in that case was the law of the land. This contention is based on the holding of this court in the case of State v. Longino, 109 Miss. 125, 67 So. 902, Ann. Cas. 1916E, 371, in which this court held that to convict a defendant of an offense…