MABRY v. STATE

No. 42824.

248 Miss. 149 (1963)

158 So.2d 688

MABRY, et al. v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. Semmes, Grenada; Breland & Whitten, Sumner, for appellants.

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


McGEHEE, C.J.

Percy N. Mabry, Calvin Sullivan and William Gordon Sullivan were indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of burglary in the Circuit Court of Grenada County, and were each sentenced to serve a term of three years in the state penitentiary.

The case must be reversed because of errors in the instructions obtained on behalf of the State. There were several instructions granted in the case but in none of them was the crime of burglary defined. Three...

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