Griffin v. State

Citations

• 127 Miss. 315
• 90 So. 11

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Party compelled to incriminate himself in preliminary trial of another held immune in prosecution.</p> <p>Section 1792, Code of 1906 (section 2106, Hemingway’s Code), is not repealed by section 9, chapter 189, Laws of 1918, and under the provisions of these sections, where a party is introduced as a witness at the preliminary trial of one charged with manufacturing liquors, and compelled to disclose a violation of the liquor laws on his part, he is immune from prosecution for the same.</p>