SPEARMAN v. STATE

No. 41284.

237 Miss. 853 (1960)

116 So.2d 823

SPEARMAN v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse M. Coleman, Aberdeen, for appellant.

G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


KYLE, J.

The appellant, Henderson Spearman, was indicted for murder and was tried and convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal. The homicide occurred during the early morning hours of December 14, 1958. The appellant and James Ivy, the deceased, are both members of the Negro race.

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