Davis v. State

Citations

• 89 Miss. 21
• 42 So. 542

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law and Procedure. Code 1892, § 974. Conviction of attempt. Guilty of crime itself.</p> <p>Code 1892, § 974, forbidding a conviction for an attempt to commit, if defendant be guilty of the crime charged, requires a reversal of a judgment violative of its terms, although the prosecuting attorney abandoned the charge and sought only a conviction for an attempt to commit the crime laid in the indictment.</p>