RANKIN v. STATE

No. 44941.

214 So.2d 811 (1968)

Michael Adair RANKIN v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Mills, Moss Point, for appellant.

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


BRADY, Justice:

The appellant, a fourteen year old Negro boy, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Scott County, Mississippi, of the crime of burglary with intent to rape and was sentenced to the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a term of seven years, the minimum penalty for breaking and entering with felonious intent an occupied dwelling house. From this conviction and sentence this appeal is taken.

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