Lloyd v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Lloyd v. State, 70 Miss. 251 (Miss. 1892)
Cooper
Lloyd v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court erred in admitting evidence of what the injured person, Green Lloyd, said to his wife and mother-in-law when they first reached him after he had been shot, as to who . had shot him. It was not a part of the res gestae. Mayes v. State, 64 Miss., 329.
Judgment reversed, and a new trial awarded.
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- Evidence. Declarations. Mes gestee. On a trial for assault with, intent to murder, it is error to admit, as part of the res gestee, the statement of the prosecuting witness as to who shot him, made in the absence of his supposed assailant, the accused, to persons who reached him a few minutes after he was wounded. Meiyes v. State, 04 Miss., 329.