PICKENS v. STATE

No. 40241.

229 Miss. 409 (1956)

90 So.2d 852

PICKENS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 3, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wingo & Finch, Hattiesburg; L.D. Pittman, Raleigh, for appellant.

J.R. Griffin, Asst. Atty Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


HOLMES, J.

The appellant was charged by indictment in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jasper County with the murder of Alvis Gammage. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve twenty years in the State penitentiary. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction, assigning as error the action of the trial court in denying his request for a peremptory instruction, and also the...

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