TATE v. STATE

No. 40108.

228 Miss. 89 (1956)

87 So.2d 295

TATE v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.M. Warwick, Albert Sidney Johnston, III, Carthage, for appellant.

John H. Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


LEE, J.

This is an appeal by Howard V. Tate from a conviction of murder and a life sentence in the penitentiary on account of the killing of his stepson, Buddy Leflore, a seventeen year old boy.

On August 14, 1955, about night, a quarrel arose between the defendant and his wife, Louise, whom he had married about four months previously. He called her a lie, or a hot lie, and she struck or pushed him with a broom, and...

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