Brown v. State

Citations

• 81 Miss. 143

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law and Procedure. Burglary.' Indictment. Ownership of house.</p> <p>An indictment for burglary may properly lay the ownership of the house broken and entered in a lessee in possession. James v. State, 77 Miss., 372, explained.</p> <p>2. Same. Improper remarles of prosecuting attorney. Test of reversible error. Supreme cou/rt practice.</p> <p>The test of reversible error in a criminal case because of improper statements by the prosecuting attorney in argument to the jury is whether the result reached would clearly and certainly have been the same, notwithstanding the error.</p>