TATE v. STATE

No. 44160.

192 So.2d 923 (1966)

Robert A. TATE v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Brewer, Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock & Cunningham, Jackson, for appellant.

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


SMITH, Justice:

Robert A. Tate was tried in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Clinton Simmons. The jury returned a verdict convicting him of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to serve a six-year term in the penitentiary. From that conviction and sentence he has appealed here.

Both Tate and Simmons were employees of the Pet Milk Company. Tate worked in the shipping office, where...

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