Brown v. State

Citations

• 108 Miss. 478
• 66 So. 975

Syllabus

<p>1. Witnesses. Privilege. Right to claim. Advice of court. Corroboration. Direct examination.</p> <p>Where two parties jointly indicted were tried separately and one, being convicted, was called by the state as a witness, on the trial of the other, it was not error for the court to refuse, on request of the party on trial, to advise the witness that he did not have to testify unless he desired to do so.</p> <p>2. Witness. Examination. Direct examination. Corroboration.</p> <p>It is error to permit the state to support the credibility of a witness by allowing the witness to state that his testimony was the samé as that given by him in another trial.</p>