Underwood v. State

Citations

• 108 Miss. 34
• 66 So. 285

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Privilege of accused. Testimony against self.</p> <p>Where accused, while under arrest, charged with the murder, voluntarily placed his foot with his shoe on, in a footprint found near the place of the homicide, evidence of another witness as to the measurement of his shoe and the tracks near the scene of the homicide, was not objectionable as violating his constitutional guaranty against being compelled to give evidence against himself.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law. Identification. Footprints.</p> <p>Evidence showing the comparison of footprints as a means of identifying a guilty party is admissible. It is competent for a witness to testify that he fitted shoes, found on the áecused, in tracks found near the scene of the crime.</p>