Jeffries v. State

Citations

• 89 Miss. 643
• 42 So. 801

Syllabus

<p>•Criminal Law and Procedure. Rape. Instructions. Evidence. Suppression of.</p> <p>In a prosecution for rape it is error:</p> <p>(a)'To deny defendant a requested instruction, there being evidence of which to predicate it, to the effect that if the jury believed that there might be some man other than defendant who committed the crime, it was not required of defendant to show the name of such man; and</p> <p>(b) To admit testimony of the statements of the prosecutrix made in the absence of defendant the day after the crime was perpetrated ; and</p> <p>(e) To admit testimony showing that defendant’s brother carried the prosecutrix out of the state just before a preceding term of the court to prevent her testifying against defendant, in the absence of all evidence connecting defendant therewith.'</p>