Case Name: Baird v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1927-05-23
Citations: 146 Miss. 547
Docket Number: No. 26280
Parties: Baird v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 146
Pages: 547–551

Head Matter:
Baird v. State.
(Division A.
May 23, 1927.)
[112 So. 705.
No. 26280.]
Bratton & Mitchell and T. L. llaman, for appellant.
J. A. Lauderdale, Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
Corpus Juris-Cyc References: Criminal Law 16CJ, p. 751, n. 99; p. 752, n. 2, 4; p. 870, n. 65 New; p. 872, n. 76; p. 903, n. 58; 17CJ, p. 244, n. 67; p. 301, n. 54; Evidence, 22CJ, p. 607, n. 28; p. 608 n. 30.

Opinion:
SMITH, CL X, Smith, C. 3.,
di a elivered the .opinion of elivered the opinion of ae court, e court.
his is an appeal from a conviction of murder; ms ,is an. appeal from a coiwiction or murder4 ant ;s defense m me court pelow being ínsanit ». ant's ctefense in ,the,court below* being' insanity,
as sanity con-fie evidence as*to the .sanity of the appellant con-jcf principady of me testimony o:; nonexpert witnesses id praiicipa: ly or the testimony p: nonexpert witnesses ir-whoseiobservation me appelant Iraq come, >sever .whose observation the ,appellaiit ha,d come., Sev-witnesses, who ,iad ample1 opportunity tor ohserv-,witnesses;.who,nad ample opportunity tor observing me conduét of tie appellant/were permitted, over iig the cpncLuct of. me appellant, were -permitted;-over it appellant ,s omection/ to state that ill their opinion appellant's objection, .to - *- Maní _ " pellanu lection to objection ion accompanied accompanied it was1 pased-it-.was i witness witness that a py a statement was Sane at r_ state ;pe time o: it in their-.opimon _ _ ,._ ;.ie homicide, tche was sane at the time oh the homicide. The us testimony was mat this opinion was not Wi ly.was.tnat thi-s. opinion was eiit of tie specific facts on wluc, or the specific facts on wlucf me opim - - ins testimgm — a statemel, S t £i "t G 1TG rdinarify, tHe"opiíIfoiT"of'"á"hóñexpert Jrdinamy, the opinion or a nonexpert a person is uhsane should le accompamec nson is ípsape ghoulq^- le 1acgo-mpanie ;iie specif tacts on msec ,. ^oco-mpa . _x .ucli if isdm — fife hi statement, of the spocihc, facts, on which it is based, yviBut if me witness testifies that the person is sane, no íí if + h A TmfnrtOC. f AC+lflAr. thot r h A 1AAVC.A11 lev COTIA' HA j-«it it the .witness testihes that tlie Person, is sane,,no such necessity exists, for m mat case le subject of'the such necessity exists, form mat, case the*sumeet of-,tiie testimony pas given'no manifestations of eccentricities testimony has given no manifestations of -eceentricitias whicp usually mart the conduct of £p.e mmg dp.seasec|, wpicp us which usuf ~,nd only t íe conduct marh tlie* conduct _ absence of such manifestations conto and oiuVotie ." 3 Joes on evidence (2d Ed.) 2337; 22 C. J. 607 .
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