McCARTY (ALIAS GRIFFIN) v. STATE

No. 40412.

230 Miss. 330 (1957)

92 So.2d 853

EDDIE LEE McCARTY (alias EDDIE LEE GRIFFIN) v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.K. Saul, Ellisville, for appellant.

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


HALL, J.

Appellant was indicted for the murder of Buster Mitchell and was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary, from which he appeals here.

He first contends that he was entitled to a peremptory instruction for the reason that there was no believable evidence which contradicted his evidence and that consequently his version of the killing should be accepted. The shooting occurred at about...

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