Johnson v. State

Citations

• 66 Miss. 189

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Homicide. Evidence of uncommunicated threats.</p> <p>Evidence of previous uncommunicated threats is admissible in cases where it is doubtful who began the difficulty, as tending to solve the doubt.</p> <p>2. Same. In what cases the evidence is doubtful.</p> <p>The question as to who is the aggressor is doubtful in the meaning of this rule, when there is a conflict of testimony upon that point.</p> <p>3. Same. Where party making threat is aggressor.</p> <p>Such evidence is also admissible when it is clearly shown that the deceased, and not the accused, was the aggressor, in order to interpret the act and motive of the deceased, and the purpose with which the attack was made.</p>