82 Miss. 498
Decided March 15, 1903
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1903-03-15
From the circuit court of, second district, Oarroll county. Hon..William F. Stevens, Judge. Stanley, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted .under Code 1892, sec. 1255, of having mingled poison with water, with intent thereby to murder one Heggie.
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Decided 1903-03-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The corpus delicti cannot be proved by the confession of an accused person. Without the confession in the case at bar there is no proof of it. The corpus delicti here is the mingling of poison with water. The water was bitter, and was spit out without harmful effect. It is not shown that there was poison in it, althought the water in the bucket was at hand.
¶3Under Osborne v. Sate, 64 Miss., 320, 1 South., 349, this case must be Reversed and remanded.