Mississippi Supreme Court, 1883

Ledbetter v. State

Ledbetter v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1883 · Cooper
61 Miss. 22

Counsel

_D. C. Wasson, for the appellant., S. H. KirJdand, on the same side., J. L. Harris, Attorney General pro tern,., for the State.

Ledbetter v. State

Opinion of the Court

Cooper, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The delaration made by the accused to the witness, Mary Nicholson, that if she had killed one woman she would kill another, was of an equivocal character. It was error for the court to assume, as was done in the ninth instruction for the State, that this was an “admission or confession” of the accused. Hogan v. State, 46 Miss. 274.

Reversed.

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