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GILMORE v. STATE

No. 39872.

225 Miss. 173 (1955)

82 So.2d 838

GILMORE v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 24, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sims, Sims & Sims, Columbus, for appellant.

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

LEE, J.

At the March 1955 Term of the Circuit Court of Monroe County, Murry Garfield Gilmore was found guilty of the murder of Sam C. Addington, and was sentenced to death in the State's lethal chamber. From the judgment entered he appealed.

Addington's store burned down on November 16, 1954, and the murder investigation began immediately. Gilmore was arrested several days later, and was thereafter confined in the...

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