STEVENS v. STATE

No. 45594.

228 So.2d 888 (1969)

Earnest Elmo STEVENS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 8, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy O. Parker, Tupelo, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. and Velia A. Mayer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

The Circuit Court of Lee County convicted Earnest Elmo Stevens of burglary and sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary, for breaking and entering an unoccupied house in Tupelo and removing several articles of antique furniture. Stevens' own admissions of guilt constituted the bulk of the evidence against him, and, on this appeal, he charges the trial court with prejudicial error in receiving those admissions into evidence over...

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