BURTON v. STATE

No. 39414.

226 Miss. 31 (1955)

79 So.2d 242

BURTON v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.J. White, Gulfport, for appellant.

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


KYLE, J.

The appellant, Robert Burton, was tried and convicted at the March 1954 term of the Circuit Court of Simpson County on a charge of unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously killing and slaying Annie Mangum, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of 20 years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment upon which the appellant was tried was one of three indictments...

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