Jones v. State

Citations

• 104 Miss. 871
• 61 So. 979

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Appeal and error. Harmless error. Court Bule 11.</p> <p>Supreme Court Rule 11 which provides that no judgment shall he reversed for misdirection of the jury or improper rulings on evidence or for errors as to matter of pleading or procedure, unless it affirmatively appear from the whole record that such judgment has resulted in a miscarriage of justice, comes to us from the common law and in slightly different language is now enforced in many jurisdictions by virtue of statutes, rules of court or judicial decisions and was followed in this state before the adoption of this rule.</p>