MATTOX v. STATE

No. 41709.

240 Miss. 544 (1961)

128 So.2d 368

MATTOX v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock & Cunningham, Jackson; W.L. Sims, Columbus; Jesse Stennis, Macon, for appellant.

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


JONES, J.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Lowndes County. The charge was murder, the verdict guilty, the sentence life. The appellant was a young man approximately 19 years of age. The deceased was a young matron, the mother of four children. They were next door neighbors on a quiet residential street in the college town of Columbus, Mississippi. The appellant was attending Mississippi State University at Starkville...

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