BRADY, Justice:
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to serve a term of life in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. From that verdict and sentence this appeal is taken.
On July 16, 1969, between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m., while playing in front of her family's store-home with several of her friends, Flora Jean Smith, a Negro girl, large for her age, was offered...
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