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HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 39721.

224 Miss. 309 (1955)

80 So.2d 1

HAWKINS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gore & Gore, Jackson, for appellant.

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

KYLE, J.

The appellant, Ross Hawkins, was indicted, tried and convicted at the regular October 1954 term of the Circuit Court of Smith County on a charge of murder in the killing of his wife, Mrs. Jessie Hawkins, and was sentenced by the court to suffer death by electrocution. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Two points are argued as grounds for reversal on this appeal: (1) That the court erred in overruling the defendant's

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