Pearson v. State

Citations

• 97 Miss. 841
• 53 So. 689

Syllabus

<p>Criminad Law and Procedure. Rape. Evidence. Hearsay. Opinion of mass-meeting. Opinion of non-expert. . '</p> <p>In a prosecution for rape, the prosecutrix being the defendant’s daughter, testimony is incompetent and inadmissible to show:</p> <p>(а) Messages sent by defendant’s parents accusing him of the crime; and</p> <p>(б) Charges made by defendant’s wife accusing him of the crime, since the wife could not have testified against him; and</p> <p>(c) That the citizens of defendant’s neighborhood held a mass-meeting, found him guilty and warned him to leave the country, under penalty of prosecution; and |(d) The. opinion of a non-expert witness, although a physician, touching the virginity of the prosecutrix, predicated of an examination of her person made after the alleged rape.</p>