MURPHY v. STATE

No. 46349.

246 So.2d 920 (1971)

Paul MURPHY v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Bingham, Carroll E. White, Tupelo, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Velia Ann Mayer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


RODGERS, Justice:

The appellant was indicted by the Grand Jury of Lee County, Mississippi, for the crime of rape of a female child under the age of twelve years and, after preliminary sanity examination, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of his natural life in the state penitentiary. From this judgment of conviction and sentence he has appealed to this Court and now contends that he should be granted a new trial because, it is said, (1) the trial...

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