Field v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. A. GreeN, Judge. The declarations about eating the bread and drinking the coffee were incompetent, and their admission led to the verdict. In that coffee the chemist found the arsenic, and the statement made during the wife’s sickness, that she drank it an hour before, indicated that as the cause of her death. “ On fire inside ” was a symptom of arsenical poisoning.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. A. GreeN, Judge. The declarations about eating the bread and drinking the coffee were incompetent, and their admission led to the verdict. In that coffee the chemist found the arsenic, and the statement made during the wife’s sickness, that she drank it an hour before, indicated that as the cause of her death. “ On fire inside ” was a symptom of arsenical poisoning. The declarations of the deceased as to the symptoms and effects of the malady from which she was suffering may be admissible, but the statement as to what she had eaten is not…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
The plaintiff in error has been convicted of the murder of his wife by poisoning, and sentenced to be hanged. The principal error of law assigned as ground for reversal of the judgment arises upon the competency of certain statements made by the wife, which were admitted -as part of the res gestee. About eight o’clock in the morning, the wife, who had been up to that time in good health, was discovered in her room, suffering intensely and vomiting violently. The alarm was at once given, and the husband, who was in his field at work, was summoned. Upon reaching the house, he was observed to…
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