SPIVEY v. STATE

No. 38193.

212 Miss. 648 (1951)

55 So.2d 404

SPIVEY v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

December 3, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.O. Hollis, for appellant.

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


Kyle, J.

The appellant, Leo Spivey, was indicted at the April 1950 term of the Circuit Court of Leake County, on a charge of murder in the killing of Lester Lewis. On the first trial of the case the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. The case was tried again at the April 1951 term of the court and the appellant was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this...

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