Case Name: Walters v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1929-01-22
Citations: 153 Miss. 709
Docket Number: No. 27763
Parties: Walters v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 153
Pages: 709–710

Head Matter:
Walters v. State.
(In Banc.
Jan. 22, 1929.)
[122 So. 189.
No. 27763.]
Collins & Collins and R. A. Wallace, for appellant.
Rufus C'reeJcmore, Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
Argued orally by Jeff Collins and R. A. Wallace, for appellant, and Rufus Creekmore, for the state.
Corpus Juris-Cyc References: Homicide, 30CJ, section 580, p. 329, n. 19.

Opinion:
Anderson,' J.
The presumption of malice that goes with the use of a deadly weapon was completely overcome in this case by the eyewitnesses to the homicide. There was no material conflict in their evidence that the appellant committed the homicide in self-defense. There fore there was no question for the jury to pass upon, and the court should have granted the appellant's request for a directed verdict of not guilty.
Reversed, and appellant discharged.-