CHARACTER v. STATE

No. 38042.

212 Miss. 30 (1951)

53 So.2d 41

CHARACTER v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B.

June 11, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dyer & Campbell, for appellant.

George H. Ethridge, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


Hall, J.

Appellant, with two others, was indicted for the murder of James Washington. He was separately tried and convicted of manslaughter. All the parties are Negroes. The death of deceased was effected by a knife wound in the head which was inflicted at a point near the intersection of Percy and Starling Streets in the City of Greenville where a number of Negroes had assembled, on the night of Labor Day in...

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