Jeffries v. State

Decided November 15, 1906

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1906-11-15

Prom the circuit court of Marshall county. Hon. James B. Boothe, Judge. Jeffries, the appellant, a negro, was indicted and tried for and convicted of a rape upon Beulah Price, a negro girl, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Prom the conviction and sentence he appealed to the supreme court.

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“While we would not, for this only, in this case, reverse for the refusal to give the twelfth charge asked by appellant, still we think it should have been given.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 463 So. 2d 1036 - Harper v. State

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Decided 1906-11-15

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Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1985

10 state decisions

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Calhoon, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2. While we would not, for this only, in this case, reverse for the refusal to give the twelfth charge asked by appellant, still we think it should have been given.

¶3 *647It was reversible error to admit what the assaulted girl said, the day after the assault, as to who committed it, in the absence of the accused.

¶4It was reversible error to admit the testimony that John Jeffries took the assaulted girl to Tennessee to prevent her presence as a witness. The accused is not shown to have been privy to this, or even to have had any knowledge of it.

¶5Reversed and remanded.