Harper v. State

Citations

• 79 Miss. 575

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Dying declaration.</p> <p>A written statemnet purporting to be the dying declaration of a deceased person, not signed by the declarant under the solemn sense of impending dissolution, is not admissible in evidence.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>A written statement prepared while an injured person is in possession of his faculties, and while he believes he will recover, although intended to be signed in the event of a subsequent conviction of impending dissolution, and afterwards so signed, is not admissible in evidence as a dying declaration.</p>