JONES v. STATE

No. 40247.

228 Miss. 458 (1956)

88 So.2d 91

JONES v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Barbee, F.C. Holmes, Jr., W.E. Wilroy, Boyce Lee Garner, Hernando, for appellant.

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


ETHRIDGE, J.

Appellant, Willie D. Jones, was convicted in the Circuit Court of DeSoto County, for the murder of George Fritz, and sentenced to death.

I.

Fritz, a seventy-six year old, unmarried white man, operated a small grocery and general merchandise store and filling station near the Mississippi-Tennessee state line, in DeSoto County, Mississippi, on U.S. Highway 61. On the morning of April 1, 1955...

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