Snyder v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Marshall county. Hon. Z. M. Stephens, Judge. Snyder, the appellant, was indicted, and convicted in the-court below, for selling intoxicants. He appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the facts. It was clearly error for the court to permit the witness, Wilkerson, to testify as to the character of the place of the defendant and that defendant kept lager beer in his house; that there was a counter in the house, etc.
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From the circuit court of Marshall county. Hon. Z. M. Stephens, Judge. Snyder, the appellant, was indicted, and convicted in the-court below, for selling intoxicants. He appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the facts. It was clearly error for the court to permit the witness, Wilkerson, to testify as to the character of the place of the defendant and that defendant kept lager beer in his house; that there was a counter in the house, etc. In no view of the case was this testimony competent. The state cannot put the defendant’s character in evidence when he is being tried for a…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The only witness to the actual sale testified that he bought from defendant a drink of whisky and paid him for it, and he fixed the date of the sale at August 18. This date he fixed absolutely from a memorandum he had made of the transaction in a note book. This witness was directly impeached by several others, who testified that they knew his character for truth and veracity, and that it was bad. This attack being foreseen by the state, it sought to bolster up the testimony by evidence, objected to, that defendant had a place where he kept liquors, and by evidence merely oral that he had a…
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