Wilkinson v. State

Appellant, Robert Wilkinson, was indicted and tried pn a charge of murder in the circuit court of Warren county, and convicted of manslaughter. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant was charged with the murder of Leonard Cherry, a boy about grown. Cherry made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Barfield, his sister and her husband, in the city of Vicksburg. Appellant was a member of the police force of the city of Vicksburg, and so was Louis Willis. On the evening’ of the homicide, Mrs. Barfield telephoned police headquarters in Vicksburg to send a policeman up to her home, without…