THURMOND v. STATE

No. 37879.

212 Miss. 36 (1951)

53 So.2d 44

THURMOND v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, In Banc.

June 11, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Bogen and B.B. Wilkes, for appellant.

Hardy Lott and Means Johnston, also for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


Alexander, J.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder. The jury saw fit to impose the extreme penalty.

The following facts may be accepted as without dispute. Appellant had been drinking steadily throughout the afternoon preceding the homicide. During the evening and up until the early hours of the following morning, he and his companions had traveled in his truck back and forth between several...

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