The appellant, Tommy McNeal, was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of murder in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County, Mississippi. The jury, in its verdict, fixed the punishment at life inprisonment in the penitentiary.
About 11:30 p.m., March 9, 1968, James Bogan Weems, the manager of the Red Bird Service Station on U.S. Highway 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was killed with a single...
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