BUTLER v. STATE

No. 38562.

217 Miss. 40 (1953)

63 So.2d 779

25 Adv. S. 10

BUTLER v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 23, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

North & North, for appellant.

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


ETHRIDGE, J.

Appellant W.T. Butler was convicted in the Circuit Court of Holmes County of the murder of W.W. Wynn, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. On this appeal from that judgment of conviction he argues several assignments of error, but we will consider only one, since the case must be reversed on that proposition and remanded for a new trial.

According to the State's evidence the murder occurred in...

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