HANCOCK v. STATE

No. 48007.

299 So.2d 188 (1974)

Wallace HANCOCK v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howie, Montgomery & Montjoy, Overstreet & Kuykendall, Minor C. Sumners, Jr., Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Billy L. Gore, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


SMITH, Justice:

Wallace Hancock was convicted in the Circuit Court of Hinds County of the murder of one Joseph Marks, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals.

Several questions are raised by appellant.

It is first argued that a statement given by him to an officer following his arrest was improperly admitted into evidence. At a preliminary hearing to determine its admissibility, the officer to whom it was given, testified that he had informed...

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