QUARLES v. STATE

No. 44456.

199 So.2d 58 (1967)

Dotson QUARLES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.W. Kellum, Sumner, Joseph L. Tennyson, Charleston, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen, Jackson, for appellee.


SMITH, Justice:

Dotson Quarles was indicted for the murder of Olivia Collins. He was tried in the Circuit Court of Tallahatchie County, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. From that conviction and sentence this appeal has been prosecuted.

On January 31, 1966, Olivia Collins was found dead in a bedroom of her home. Bruises upon her body indicated that she had...

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