Temple v. State

Citations

• 105 Miss. 449
• 62 So. 429

Syllabus

<p>1. Cbimiital Law. Opinion of witness. Course of 'bullet. View trial. Impeachment of verdict.</p> <p>Where on a murder trial, the relative position of the accused and the deceased at the time of the hilling, is a material inquiry, it was reversible error to allow a witness for the state who had examined the room in which the homicide occurred and found bullet marks on the wall, to testify that in his opinion the party firing the shots must have been located at a certain place in the room.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law. Impeachment of verdict.</p> <p>It is not competent for jurors to impeach their verdict of guilty by testimony on a motion for a new trial that at the time they rendered the verdict they did not believe the defendant guilty.</p>