Holt v. State

Citations

• 78 Miss. 631

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Procedure. Writ of error coram nobis.</p> <p>A petition for writ of error coram nobis, supported alone by the affidavit of defendant, after conviction of murder, charging that one of the jurors (not naming the one), was not a citizen or qualified elector of the county; that some unknown person had falsely informed the jury, pending the trial, that defendant had previously killed two men and shot a third, and that one of the state’s witnesses (not naming the one) had stated to several persons (not named), before the trial, that he was not present at the killing and knew nothing about it, is too vague and' uncertain to entitle petitioner to relief.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Whether a writ of error coram nobis be allowable in a criminal case, quaere.</p> <p>3. Criminal Law. Threats. Evidence of other crimes.</p> <p>Where a defendant on trial for murder has offered competent evidence of threats by decedent to do him personal violence, it is incompetent for the state to show that such threats' were made in consequence of defendant’s dishonesty in a transaction with deceased.</p>