Mississippi Supreme Court· 1/16/2014

Harrell v. State

Citations

134 So. 3d 266
2014 WL 172125
2014 Miss. LEXIS 52

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holding under the Mississippi Constitution \that it is always and in every case reversible error for the courts of Mississippi to deny an accused the right to have a jury decide guilt as to each and every element\
rejecting the Neder majority and adopting the position of Justice Scalia
“Harrell’s flight from Jackson to dispose of the body in Holmes County was unexplained by anything other than guilt or guilty knowledge.”
“Harrell’s flight from Jackson to dispose of the body in Holmes County was unexplained by anything other than guilt or guilty knowledge.”
first citing States v. State, 88 So. 3d 749, 757 (Miss. 2012); and then citing Austin v. State, 784 So. 2d 186, 194 23 (Miss. 2001)
“[A]ppellate courts may use harmless error to preserve, but not supplement, a jury’s findings.”

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Judges: Chandler, Coleman, Dickinson, King, Kitchens, Lamar, Pierce, Randolph, Waller

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