RODGERS, Justice:
This case came to this Court from the Circuit Court of Stone County, Mississippi, in which the appellant, Fred Peterson, was indicted on a charge of having murdered Henry Lee Bond, a Negro policeman. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to suffer death.
The facts leading up to the tragedy, as told by State witnesses in the main, are as follows.
Katheryn Johnson, a Negro woman, lived with the appellant, Fred Peterson, and they had...
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