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- Title: Henry v. Mississippi
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 18, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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Petitioner was convicted of disturbing the peace, by indecent proposals to and offensive contact with an 18-year-old hitchhiker to whom he is said to have given a ride in his car. The trial judge charged the jury that "you cannot find the defendant guilty on the unsupported and uncorroborated testimony of the complainant alone." The petitioners federal claim derives from the admission of a police officers testimony, introduced to corroborate the hitchhikers testimony. The Mississippi Supreme Court held that the officers testimony was improperly admitted as the fruit of "an unlawful search and was in violation of ? 23, Miss. Constitution 1890." 154 So. 2d 289, 294. The tainted evidence tended to substantiate the hitchhikers testimony by showing its accuracy in a detail which could have been seen only by one inside the car. In particular, it showed that the right-hand ashtray of the car in which the incident took place was full of Dentyne chewing gum wrappers, and that the cigarette lighter did not function. The police officer testified that after petitioners arrest he had returned to the petitioners home and obtained the permission of petitioners
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