HOPKINS v. STATE

No. 38238.

212 Miss. 772 (1951)

55 So.2d 467

HOPKINS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B.

December 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer Pittman and Claude F. Pittman, Sr., for appellant.

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


Alexander, J.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder, the judgment carrying with it a sentence of life imprisonment.

There is no dispute as to the fact that the accused while seated in a parked car beside his employer fired two fatal shots into the side of the body.

The assignments of error argued include the fact that the accused, an admitted drug addict, had been kept under drugs continually since his arrest. The testimony of physicians...

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