Sadler v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Sadler v. State, 98 Miss. 401 (Miss. 1910)
53 So. 783
Smith
Sadler v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant was indicted for murder, convicted of mam slaughter, and appeals to this court.
During a part of the examination of one of the witnesses for the state, the defendant was not in the, court room, but- was confined in the county jail, some distance therefrom. Under repeated decisions of this court, this was fatal error.
The judgment of the court below, therefore, must be, .and is, reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Moscow Sadler v. State of Mississippi
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- Criminal Law. Trial. Presence of defendant. In a trial for murder, it is reversible error for the defendant to be absent during the examination of a witness for the state, and this is not cured by having the stenographer read to the defendant the questions and answers propounded in his absence.