SMITH v. STATE

No. 45030.

222 So.2d 688 (1969)

Willie James SMITH v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Phyfer, Jackson, for appellant.

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


GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:

Willie James Smith was indicted, tried and convicted by jury in Hinds County, Mississippi, on a forgery charge and sentenced to ten years in the State Penitentiary.

The facts, as developed from appellant's confession which was admitted into evidence, are not in dispute and are as follows. On September 19, 1967, Randall Ashley and Sammy Strickland picked up appellant and asked him if he wanted to cash some blank checks that had...

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