DAVIS v. STATE

No. 39161.

220 Miss. 818 (1954)

72 So.2d 172

63 Adv. S. 5

DAVIS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 3, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.G. Livingston, Prentiss; Sebe Dale, Jr., Columbia, for appellant.

Wm. E. Cresswell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


McGEHEE, C.J.

The appellant, John Henry Davis, was convicted of the murder of his 21-year-old son, Frank Davis, and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this appeal he assigns as error (1) that he was refused a directed verdict in his favor, (2) that in any event the trial court should not have submitted to the jury the question of whether the homicide amounted to murder instead of limiting the issue to manslaughter or an accidental killing, and (3) that certain instructions...

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