BURNETT, Justice.
Henry Smith, Jr., was indicted for killing the proprietor of a liquor store in Memphis on September 2, 1960, while in the perpetration of a robbery with a pistol. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution.
The contention here is that the evidence does not warrant death by electrocution and that the homicide was committed in self-defense.
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