Echols v. State

Citations

• 99 Miss. 683
• 55 So. 485

Syllabus

<p>1. Homicide. Provocation of difficulty. Uncommunicated threats.</p> <p>A father who learns of the seduction of his daughter has the right to . seek the seducer for an explanation and for a peaceful adjustment of the matter; and in seeking this end, he has the further right to arm himself, not with the intention to provoke a difficulty, but to protect himself if necessary, in self-defense.</p> <p>2. Uncommunicated Threats. Evidence.</p> <p>Uncommunicated threats are admissible on the trial of a criminal case when there is a conflict in the testimony as to who was the aggressor, where they throw light on the significance of the acts of the deceased.</p> <p>5. Conditional Threats.</p> <p>On the trial of a homicide case conditional threats of deceased are admissible; where the condition of the threats of deceased had materialized.</p>