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89 Miss. 429

Cooper v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1906

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1906-11-15

Erom the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. Mots II. Wilkinson, Judge. Cooper, the appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of the murder of one Giles, and was sentenced to suffer death. Erom such conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court. The dead body of Giles was found near a railroad track in the village of Eernwood, its condition indicating that death had been caused by violence.

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Calhoon, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2It was error to permit the testimony of what the accused said as a witness under oath before the grand jury. He was then in custody on the charge of committing the very crime for which that grand jury indicted him, and there is evidence in the record that he was induced to make the statement by precedent undue influence. This state is thoroughly committed to the doctrine of its nonadmissibility. Josephine v. State, 39 Miss., 650; Jackson v. State, 56 Miss., 312; Farkas v. State, 60 Miss., 848; Ford v. State, 75 Miss., 104 (at bottom) (s.c., 21 South. Rep., 524).

¶3. We do not want to be understood as in any degree differing from Steel v. State, 76 Miss., 393 (s.c., 24 South. Rep., 910). In the case now in hand it sufficiently appears from the circumstances that appellant did not voluntarily go before the grand jury and deliver the oath. We decide no other question.

¶4Reversed and remanded.

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