KING v. STATE

No. 43225.

251 Miss. 161 (1964)

168 So.2d 637

KING v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Smith, Ripley; Douglas D. Shands, Tupelo, for appellant.

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


RODGERS, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee County sentencing appellant to serve a term of twenty years in the State Penitentiary. Appellant was tried upon an indictment charging him with murder. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of manslaughter.

The events and circumstances leading to appellant's conviction are shown by the State to have begun about 8:30 o'clock on the...

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