Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 29, 1935No. 31375PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Chief Justice.

The judgment herein was affirmed (158 So. 339) on a former day, and we then held that the court below committed no error in admitting in evidence the appellants’ confessions, and that its error, if such it was, in admitting certain other evidence, was cured by its being thereafter excluded.

The appellants suggest that we erred in both holdings and also suggest that the judgment should be reversed for other reasons now asserted for the first time, and which will be hereinafter stated.

1. Were the confessions erroneously admitted? When the confessions were offered, the court…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Snyder v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  3. Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  4. Corrigan v. BuckleySupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  5. Fisher v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1926

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Lyons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1943
  2. Skiskowski v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1946
  3. McLain v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1945
  4. Lee v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1947
  5. Poore v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1948

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