Houston v. State

Citations

• 117 Miss. 311
• 78 So. 182

Syllabus

<p>Homicide. Self defense. Burden of proof. Reasonable doubt.</p> <p>« Where in a trial for murder there was nothing in the evidence-to connect the defendant with the killing except her own testimony, which showed that she acted in self defense, after being assaulted, with a knife, by deceased, and her testimony was. not contradicted by the physical facts or inconsistent circumstances but rather corroborated by the witnesses for the state. In such case the state failed to prove defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty and defendant should have been given a peremptory instruction of acquittal.</p>