Case Name: Allen v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1926-11-15
Citations: 144 Miss. 447
Docket Number: No. 25742
Parties: Allen v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 447–452

Head Matter:
Allen v. State.
(Division A.
Nov. 15, 1926.)
[110 So. 121.
No. 25742.]
Deavours Hilbun, J. A. McFarland, Holt M. J. Boss and H. L. Bayless, for appellant.
Rufus Greekmore, Special Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 17 C. J., p. 331, n. 45. Homicide, 80 C. J., p. 162, n. 77; p. 196, n. 80.

Opinion:
Smith, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court below committed no error in admitting evidence of the various assaults made by the appellant upon the deceased prior to the assault which immediately preceded his death, for the jury were warranted in believing from the evidence that these assaults, because of the decedent's ansemic condition, contributed to his death.
The evidence of the witnesses which tended to show that an assault on some one was being made, but wlm themselves did not identify either the assailant or the person assaulted, was properly admitted, for the identity of each was established by another witness.
Assuming] that the various opinions as to the cause of the decedent's death expressed by nonexpert witnesses should not have been admitted, and that the evidence that complaints were made by the appellant's neighbors to the sheriff prior to the decedent's death of the treatment by the appellant, should also not have been admitted, their admission, on this record,, is clearly within the rule of harmless error. The verdict is manifestly correct.
Affirmed.