Pitts v. State

241 So.2d 668 (1970)

William Thomas PITTS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 46037.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 7, 1970.

Lawrence D. Arrington, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John M. Kinard, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant, William Thomas Pitts, was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi. The jury in its verdict fixed his punishment at life in the State penitentiary, and the judgment of the court embodied this…