PHILLIPS v. STATE

No. 43851.

183 So.2d 908 (1966)

Eugene PHILLIPS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.S. Scott, Jr., Laurel, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


BRADY, Justice:

Eugene Phillips, a twenty-eight year old Negro man, was convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit Court District of Jones County on March 29, 1965, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. From this conviction and sentence, this appeal is prosecuted.

The essential facts in this case are as follows: On Saturday, June 6, 1964, in the early...

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