De Jean v. State

Citations

• 108 Miss. 146
• 66 So. 411

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Appeal. Misconduct of prosecutor. Argument. Witnesses. Gross-examination of accused.</p> <p>In a prosecution for unlawful cohabitation where the proof was only circumstantial and where defendant’s character which had not been put in evidence, was important on the question of his guilt, it was reversible error for the district attorney, in his argument to the jury, to comment on the failure of the defendant to introduce evidence of his previous character.</p> <p>2. Witnesses. Oross-exaination of accused.</p> <p>In a prosecution for unlawful cohabitation, it was improper for the district attorney on cross-examination, of defendant to ask him, if his father-in-law and his son had not run him out of their house on account of his association with his codefendant, and if he had. not been expelled from the Elks, and if his codefendant had been horsewhipped and run out of town on account of her association with him.</p>