Murphy v. State

Citations

• 119 Miss. 220
• 80 So. 636

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Instructions. Credibility of witnesses.</p> <p>An instruction for the state in a criminal case is not reversible error, as being on the weight of evidence, which directs the jury’s attention to the situation and location of the witnesses with reference to the scene of the difficulty.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law. Instructions. Credibility of accused.</p> <p>An instruction for the state in a criminal case, that in determining the credibility of witnesses, the notice and interest any witness may have may be considered, does not single out the defendant as a witness in her own behalf, where she was not the only witness who testified for the defense, her father having also ■ testified for the defense.</p> <p>3. Criminal Law. Instructions. Cured by other instructions.</p> <p>Even though an instruction for the state may indirectly suggest the interest of the defendant on the point of credibility, yet this is not reversible error'where the jury reading all the instructions together could have no doubt about their right and duty to consider carefully the testimony of the defendant as a witness in her own behalf.</p>