Case Name: Wallace v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1925-10-19
Citations: 140 Miss. 881
Docket Number: No. 24933
Parties: Wallace v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 140
Pages: 881–884

Head Matter:
Wallace v. State.
(In Banc.
Oct. 19, 1925.)
[105 So. 520.
No. 24933.]
R. J. Pettey, for appellant.
J. L. Byrd, assistant attorney-general, for the state.
Argued orally.by R. J. Pettey, for appellant, and J. L. Byrd, assistant attorney-general for the state.
Headnote 1. Homicide, 30 C. J., Sections 387, 441.

Opinion:
Smith, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence of the witnesses Vafinis and Cornes as to the statement alleged to have been made by the deceased that "four negroes assaulted him" was properly excluded, and the state's instructions complained of were warranted by the evidence.
The judgment of the court below will be affirmed, and the sentence executed on Friday, December 4, 1925.
Affirmed.