Lewis v. State

Citations

• 93 Miss. 697
• 47 So. 467

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law and Procedure. Evidence. Good character.</p> <p>Testimony of a defendant’s good character is always admissible in a criminal case, and may be sufficient of itself to create a reasonable doubt of his guilt.</p> <p>._. Same. Instruction. Absence of evidence.</p> <p>The refusal of an instruction to the effect that proof of defendant’s good character may be sufficient of itself to create a reasonable doubt of his guilt is not error, where the only witness who testified on the subject knew nothing more than that defendant had been good while he worked for him.</p> <p>'3. Same. Instruction already given.</p> <p>It is not error to refuse an instruction announcing a proposition substantially given in another.</p>