Taylor v. State

Appellant was charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter.

It is an established rule of law in this State that where the defendant or the defendant’s witnesses are the only eye witnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness for the State, or by the physical facts or the facts of common knowledge. Houston v. State, 117 Miss. 311, 78 So. 182; Patty v. State, 126 Miss. 94, 88 So. 498; Wesley v. State, 153 Miss. 357, 358, 120 So. 918; Walters v. State, 153 Miss. 709, 122 So.…