JONES v. STATE

No. 54611.

442 So.2d 919 (1983)

William B. JONES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Barnett, Jr., Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock & Cunningham, Jackson, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Frankie Walton White, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before BROOM, P.J., and ROY NOBLE LEE and DAN M. LEE, JJ.


BROOM, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Manslaughter is the offense for which appellant (William B. Jones, defendant herein) was convicted, in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, the Honorable William F. Coleman presiding. Trial was actually upon a murder indictment but resulted in the manslaughter, lesser offense, conviction, and sentence of twenty (20) years imprisonment. The unusual feature of the case is that the defendant's victim...

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