Brown Vs Mississippi Case Summary

In the Case Brown v. Mississippi, the petitioners were Ed Brown, Arthur Ellington and henry Shields and the correspondent in the case was the State of Mississippi. The defendants were appealing a ruling that had been made with regards to them having been found guilty of having murdered Raymond Stuart. Their appeal was based on the fact that the evidence that was used in the case was primarily based on confessions whose extraction did not follow due process. This is because they were tortured into confessing to having murdered Raymond Stuart. The acquisition of the confessions was in the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment according to the statement by the Mississippi Supreme Court as the court overturned the guilty verdict against Ed Brown et al. and ruling in the favor of the petitioners. According to the …show more content…
guilty of the murder had a conviction that the three tenant farmers who were black with respect to their race, must have murdered Raymond, mainly because the victim was white. The jury must have believed that the racial differences and differences with regards to the fact that the victim was a white planter and the three were tenant farmers, must have been the motivation behind the murder. This must have influenced the decision of the jury in sentencing the three to be hang despite knowledge that the evidence that was used in court was inadmissible (Brown, 2004). Current Literature and Conclusions of Brown v. Mississippi Current literature fully supports the conclusions that were arrived in the case. According to current literature, in the process and practice of acquisition of evidence, the police should not in any way violate the Fourteenth Amendment especially the clause regarding due process. Evidence that is procured in the violation of due process and the Fourteenth Amendment is not in any way admissible in court and is considered null (Brown,