Turner v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court
Turner v. State, 89 Miss. 621 (Miss. 1906)
42 So. 165
Whitfield

Turner v. State

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The conviction rests upon the testimony of Polly Howard as to the alleged dying declaration of the deceased. Dr. Alexander’s testimony, set out as newly discovered evidence in the motion for a new trial, completely and positively contradicts Polly Howard’s testimony on every material point. The showing required by the law in regard to newly discovered evidence, so far as the affidavits of the counsel and the prisoner were concerned, was fully complied with. In this condition of the record, a new trial should have been granted.

Reversed and remanded.

Reference

Full Case Name
Edward Turner v. The State of Mississippi
Status
Published
Syllabus
Criminal Law. Homicide. Neto trial. Netoly discovered evidence. Where the accused had been convicted of murder on the testimony of a witness as to the alleged dying declarations of the decedent, it was reversible error to overrule a motion for a new trial predicated of newly discovered evidence, if it is made to appear, in the proper manner, that a creditable person would contradict the state’s witness on every material point.