MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.
The appellant, Silas Grigsby, a coal miner, forty-five years of age and father of five children, shot and killed Curt Combs in Perry County, June 16, 1956. He pleaded self-defense. He was convicted on ample evidence and sentenced to life in the penitentiary at hard labor. The sole substantial ground urged for reversal involves the admission of certain evidence and reference to it in the argument of the prosecution.
In his direct testimony...
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