Mississippi Supreme Court· 10/15/1911

Irving v. State

Citations

100 Miss. 208
56 So. 377

Syllabus

<p>Ceiminal Law. Instructions. Circumstantial Evidence.</p> <p>An instruction in a criminal prosecution as to the value of circumstantial evidence is fatally defective if it omits the necessary qualification that circumstantial evidence in order to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than' that of guilt.</p>

Judges: Smith

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Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

Simmons v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court· 1914-03-15· cited 7×
Smith v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court· 1911-10-15· cited 3×
Hadley v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court· 1965-12-13· cited 1×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

Williams v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court· 1909-03-15· cited 18×
Permenter v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court· 1911-03-15· cited 6×

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