Turner v. State

Citations

• 95 Miss. 879
• 50 So. 629

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law and Procedure. Intoxicating liquors. Unlawful sales. Credibility of witnesses. Instruction.</p> <p>In. a prosecution for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors where the witnesses called by the state were detectives employed by the state to ferret out such sales, although for a fixed compensation, there being no evidence of other interest, a defendant’s instruction should have been given on request announcing that the weight of evidence and the credibility of the witnesses were for the determination of the jury, that they should consider the interest, if any, the witnesses may have had in the case, and if they believed any witness had wilfully sworn falsely to any material matter they might disbelieve the whole of his testimony.</p>