Thompson v. State

Citations

• 73 Miss. 584

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. InstrucWms.</p> <p>The practice of charging juries that they may consider particular portions of the evidence with reference to the other evidence, while not commendable, affords no ground of reversal. Cheatham v. State, 67 Miss., 335, cited.</p> <p>2. Same. Confession of accused. Weight of evidence. Code 1892, \\ 732.</p> <p>It is error, however, to instruct the jury, upon the trial of one in-dieted for grand larceny, that “ a confession freely and voluntarily made is among the best evidence known to the law, and that, if they believed from the evidence that the defendant made such a confession, then they are authorized to consider it in connection with the other evidence,” etc., the instruction being upon the weight of evidence and in violation of code 1892, $ 732. Brown v. State, 32 Miss., 433; Hogsettv. State, 40 lb., 522, cited.</p>