MARR v. STATE

No. 42556.

248 Miss. 281 (1963)

159 So.2d 167

MARR v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wall Doxey, Jr., Holly Springs, for appellant.

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


McELROY, J.

J.G. Marr, appellant, was indicted for murder of Rufus Edwards, a seventy-two-year-old resident of Byhalia, Mississippi, in the Circuit Court of Marshall County. He was tried once and had a mistrial; at the second trial he was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary.

Appellant was the duly elected constable of the Third District of Marshall...

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