Ford v. State

Citations

• 75 Miss. 101

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Confession. Admissibility of same.</p> <p>A confession of the crime of burglary by a boy thirteen years of age, of dull mind and pliant nature, made to the officer having him in custody, and after an assurance by the officer that it would be better for him to tell of the crime if he had been influenced to take part in it by older persons, is inadmissible in evidence against him. Peter v. State, 4 Smed. & M., 31; Simon v. State, 37 Miss., 288, cited.</p> <p>2. Same. Voluntary statement on preliminary hearing. Accused entitled to warning. ,</p> <p>The self-criminating statements made by a boy thirteen years of age, at a preliminary hearing before a justice of the peace, on a charge of burglary, are not admissible in evidence against him, when it appears that he made them while being used as a witness for the prosecution and in the course of a subsequent voluntary statement, without any warning whatever as to the consequences of a confession. Peter v. State, i Smed. & M., 31; Williams v. Suite, 72 Miss., 117, cited.</p>