Moseley v. State

Citations

• 112 Miss. 854
• 73 So. 791

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Argument or prosecution. Invoicing race prejudice.</p> <p>Where a negress was being prosecuted for selling whisky .and the only witness for the state was a white man, it was reversible error for the district attorney to state to the jury, “it is just a question whether or not you believe this negro or the white witness,” naming him, and his retort when appellant’s counsel objected, to further say ‘‘she is a negro; look at her skin; if she is not a negro I don’t want you to convict her” where the court when appealed to, did not rule on the objection but merely said, “well what is she.”</p>