On Wednesday night, April 16, 1952, the appellant, Herman Lee West, a 31-year-old tenant share-cropper in Sunflower County, killed his wife, Mrs. Gene West, who was 21 years of age, carried the body some distance from their residence and left it in a weed patch until he could return to the house and get a shovel to dig a hole in an attempt to conceal the crime. The body was not found until on the following...
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