BROOKS v. STATE

No. 45895.

236 So.2d 751 (1970)

John Wallace BROOKS, Jr. v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Courtney & Echols, Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John M. Kinard, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


BRADY, Justice.

In the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, appellant was found guilty of the crime of kidnapping and sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. From that judgment this appeal is taken.

The appellant, John Wallace Brooks, Jr., along with Albert K. Bankston, James Ralph Murphy, and Willie Price, was indicted by the Hinds County Grand Jury for kidnapping Fred Thomas,...

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