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Mississippi Supreme Court· 3/15/1922

Pickens v. State

Citations

  • 129 Miss. 191
  • 91 So. 906

Syllabus

<p>CiiiMiNAi. Law. Admitting confession of another jointly accused, made out of defendant’s presence, and after the crime, was error.</p> <p>In a trial of one for murder, where the defendant and two others are jointly accused of the crime, it was fatal error to allow the state to show the conviction, and implicating confession of one of the others and the plea of guilty of the other; the confession being out of the presence of defendant, and after the commission of the crime.</p>

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  • introduction of absent co-indictee's previous indictment or guilty plea held error

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