Snell v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
AppeaTj from the circuit court of Perry county. Hon. J. M. Arnold, Judge. William Snell was convicted of murder and appeals.
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AppeaTj from the circuit court of Perry county. Hon. J. M. Arnold, Judge. William Snell was convicted of murder and appeals. Will Snell, a negro, having been convicted of the murder of another negro, Hosea Hicks, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, appealed to the supreme court; his chief ground for reversal of judgment being predicated on the admission in evidence, on his trial, of the testimony of a state’s witness, Virgie Bolton, relative to alleged dying declarations made to her by Hicks as to the cause of his death. Snell was convicted on circumstantial evidence. Hicks, while at the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
It cannot be said from the evidence that the deceased’s condition and state of mind at the time he told Virgie Bolton that defendant shot was such as to bring the statement within the rule governing dying declarations; consequently, it should not have been admitted.
Reversed and remanded.
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