Legal Opinion · Dissent

Turnage v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided February 18, 1924No. 23473Published

1DissentStkes, J.

The material part of section 1792, Code of 1906 (section 2106, Hemingway’s Code), is that: “No person shall be excused from attending and testifying . . . before any court, or in any cause or proceeding, criminal or otherwise, based upon or growing out of any allegpd violation of this chapter, ... on the ground and for the reason- that the testimony or evidence, . . . required of him, may tend to criminate him. . . . But no person shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty . . . on account of any transaction, . . . concerning which he may testify, ’ ’ etc. •

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2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Lucas v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1922
  2. Rist v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1908
  3. Howard v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
  4. Wall v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1913

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