SUGG, Justice, for the Court:
Bennie James Cole was indicted and tried in the Circuit Court of Neshoba County for the crime of murder, but was convicted of the lesser included crime of manslaughter. The court sentenced him to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. We affirm.
On August 4, 1980, Patricia Cole died from five .22 caliber gunshot wounds fired from a rifle, and inflicted by the defendant who was her brother...
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