Jenkins v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge.' ' Eugene Jenldns was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Counsel for the state admit that the action of the court in excluding the testimony as to threats, violence and abuse, and the subsequent exclusion of the confessions made under such circumstances, was correct.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge.' ' Eugene Jenldns was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Counsel for the state admit that the action of the court in excluding the testimony as to threats, violence and abuse, and the subsequent exclusion of the confessions made under such circumstances, was correct. They desire to uphold the conviction on the evidence of Walker tó whom'a confession was purported to have been made. This cannot avail the prosecution since the purported confession to…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The appellant, Eugene Jenkins, a negro was convicted in the circuit court of Pike county of carrying, concealed about his person, a pistol, and appeals to this court. Brewer and Thompson, one a deputy sheriff and the other a constable, conceiving’ that the appellant had a pistol concealed on his person, undertook to search him, when he fled. As he was fleeing, one of the officers shot at and missed him. The appellant ran about two hundred and fifty yards and stopped. These officers then went to him, and found that he had no pistol about his person, but found one over in the field where he…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Heard v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
- Stanley v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
- Niblett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1897
- Jenkins v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1872
3Cited by5 opinions
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