105 Miss. 782
Decided October 15, 1913
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1913-10-15
HoN. D. M. Miller, Judge. Fannie Jackson was convicted of an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor and appeals. Appellant was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. The testimony in the lower court was conflicting, and the defendant introduced evidence tending to show that the state’s witness, when testifying in the circuit court, had contradicted the testimony in the magistrate’s court.
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Decided 1913-10-15
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1946
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2It is probable that this court, sitting as a jury) would have acquitted the defendant upon the evidence; hut, as the jury are the sole judges of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses, we are not authorized to disturb the verdict of the jury, where there was evidence, if believed, that justified.the verdict.
¶3Affirmed.