MAY v. STATE

No. 44433.

199 So.2d 635 (1967)

Durwood MAY v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker & Sullivan, Mendenhall, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by R. Hugo Newcomb, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


RODGERS, Justice:

Durwood May, appellant, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Circuit Court of Simpson County, Mississippi, on a charge of having murdered his wife, Daisy Ann May. He appealed to this Court, and has presented several serious assignments of error. We have concluded that the case must be reversed for a new trial; therefore, we discuss only the facts essential to the explanation of the points of error on which this...

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