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96 Miss. 638

Sides v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1910

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1910-03-15

Nbom the circuit court of Yazoo county. HoN. Wiley H. Pottee., Judge. Sides, appellant, was indicted and tried for murder, convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to the penitentiary, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The peremptory instruction asked for by appellant should have been given; it is perfectly clear from the evidence that •Sides acted in necessary self-defense.

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Decided 1910-03-15

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¶1SMITH, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Appellant was indicted in the court below for murder, convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, and appeals to this court.

¶3There were a goodly number of eyewitnesses to the killing, only •one of whom was introduced by the state; several of the others being introduced on behalf of appellant. The witness introduced on the part of the state admittedly did not see all of the difficulty; his attention being first attracted thereto by the report of the first shot fired by appellant. The evidence of the other eyewitnesses is not in material conflict with the testimony of the state’s witness relative to that portion of the difficulty which -was seen by him, and from the whole evidence it is clear that appellant acted in necessary self-defense. The court, therefore, erred in not granting the peremptory instruction requested by appellant.

¶4The judgment of the court below is reversed, and the cause remanded. Reversed.

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