Ouidas v. State

Citations

• 78 Miss. 622

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Procepure. Suspension of trial. Hearing other matter.</p> <p>Prejudice not being shown, a conviction of murder is not reversible because the court, pending the trial (the introduction of evidence being suspended by a necessary absence of the jury from the courtroom), heard for thirty minutes an application for a statutory reward for the arrest of another homicide, the jury returning and being present during a. part of the time so consumed.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law. Evidence. Motive.</p> <p>Evidence of illicit relations between the defendant in a murder case and the wife of the decedent is admissible, since it tends to show a motive for the killing.</p> <p>3. Same. Facts of case.</p> <p>Evidence examined and adjudged sufficient to maintain a conviction for murder.</p>