Peden v. State

Citations

• 61 Miss. 267

Syllabus

<p>3. Instructions. Bill of exceptions.</p> <p>Unless “ marked” as required by the statute, or copied into the bill of exceptions, the charges are no part of tire record, and cannot be noticed on appeal.</p> <p>2. Confession. Prisoner. Voluntary statement.</p> <p>The statement of a prisoner to the officer who has him in custody is admissible in evidence at his trial for murder, if made without anything being done to induce or extort a confession.</p> <p>3. Bill of Exceptions. New trial.</p> <p>The bill of exceptions giving all the evidence and exception being reserved to the court’s action in overruling the motion for a new trial in the entry of such ruling, the supreme court examines the facts to pass on the ground of the motion that the verdict is contrary to law and the evidence.</p> <p>4. Conspiracy. Liability of conspirators.</p> <p>If in carrying out a conspiracy to take a man from his house and flog him, one of the conspirators kills the man, the others are equally guilty of murder.</p>