AGEE v. STATE

No. 43903.

185 So.2d 671 (1966)

Joe AGEE v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 25, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O.M. Oates, Jr., Bay Springs, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by Hugo Newcomb, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

Joe Agee was convicted of murdering Hurbert Darby. The jury fixed punishment at life imprisonment, and Agee appealed to this Court.

Hurbert Darby lived alone in the rural part of Jasper County, Mississippi, where he was employed to care for a cattle farm. On December 29, 1964, he was found dead in his residence from gunshot wounds in the chest. He had been shot through a window. There was no evidence of robbery, and at the time...

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