Abney v. State

Citations

• 123 Miss. 546
• 86 So. 341

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law. Jury should not ho reminded hy district attorney as to the maximum and minimum penalty.</p> <p>The jury is not concerned, in arriving at its verdict, with the quantum of punishment that may be inflicted in response thereto, and should not in a murder case be reminded by the district attorney that in event the defendant should be convicted of manslaughter the maximum penalty is twenty years in the state penitentiary, and the minimum penalty absolutely within the discretion of the court.</p>