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Davenport v. State

Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Date filed: 1926-10-04
Citations: 109 So. 707, 144 Miss. 273
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* Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16CJ, p. 935, n. 68 New. The evidence is wholly insufficient to sustain the verdict of guilty; consequently the peremptory instruction asked by the appellant should have been granted.

The verdict of the court below will be reversed, and the appellant discharged.

Reversed. *Page 277