JONES, Justice:
The appellant, William Thomas (Bill) Smith, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County of the murder of Vernon Dahmer and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Dahmer, a Negro, lived with his wife and three children in a rural community near Hattiesburg. Dahmer's wife testified that she was awakened about two o'clock a.m. on the night of January 10, 1966, by the constant blowing of a car horn and gunshots coming...
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