Walker v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Simpson county. Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Herschel Walker was convicted of violating tbe prohibition law, and he appeals.
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Appeal from circuit court of Simpson county. Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Herschel Walker was convicted of violating tbe prohibition law, and he appeals. We submit that no one can be convicted of crime on the uncorroborated confessions of himself alone, and in support of this we beg leave to cite the following authority: Jinhins v. State, 54 So. ’158'; Pitts v. State, 48 Miss. 472; Stanley v. State, 34 So. 360; Bolden v. State, 54 So. 241. In each and all of the authorities above cited this court has held that the corpus delicti cannot be proven by the confessions of the accused person. It is…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The appellant was convicted of the unlawful making and distilling of intoxicating liquor and appeals to this court. The evidence for the state is in substance that a sheriff raided the appellant’s premises and found there a still which smelt as if it had come, in contact with alcohol, and a barrel of mash, the quality of which does not appear, and that the appellant admitted to the sheriff that he had made two quarts of liquor at another place several days before.
At the close of the evidence, a request by the appellant to exclude the evidence and to grant him a peremptory in*249struction was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Heard v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
3Cited by6 opinions
- Keeton v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1936
- Brooks v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1937
- Pope v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1930
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- Barnes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1945
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