Avant v. State

Citations

• 88 Miss. 226
• 40 So. 483

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Murder. Verdict. Sentence.</p> <p>A death sentence in a murder case should not be predicated of a verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged, but begging the mercy of the court in his behalf.</p> <p>2. Same. Oloud on verdict. Removing.</p> <p>While the legal effect of a verdict in these words, “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged and beg the mercy of the court,” is to impose the death sentence, yet the court should require the jury to. remove the cloud from the finding and make their meaning plain.</p>