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THOMAS v. STATE

No. 39389.

222 Miss. 488 (1954)

76 So.2d 242

THOMAS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 13, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.J. White, Gulfport, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

LEE, J.

Lula Mae Thomas was convicted of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, and from a sentence of five years in the state penitentiary, she appealed.

She complains of errors in the admission of (1) the testimony of Joseph Lee Dread, and (2) a purported dying declaration.

When Joseph Lee Dread, a son of the deceased, Josephine Dread, was offered as a witness for the State, the

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