PITTS v. STATE

No. 37857.

211 Miss. 268 (1951)

51 So.2d 448

PITTS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B.

March 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ed. Franklin and D.M. Lee, for appellant.

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


Ethridge, C.

Appellant, Ronald Nelson Pitts, was convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, of the murder of P.W. Henderson and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. He urges as reversible errors in the court below (1) the denial to him of a peremptory instruction, on the ground that his version as the sole eyewitness must be accepted, it being reasonable and not materially contradicted...

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