ROBERTSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:
Roy Estine Fornett was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County for the murder of Levernon Thompson, alias "Monkey Man". He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
On the morning of February 23, 1979, Fornett, through a window in his home, saw Thompson enter Collier's Place. He armed himself with a 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun, loaded with buckshot...
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