Gaines v. State

272 So.2d 919 (1973)

Ada GAINES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 47149.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 5, 1973.

John B. Gee, Vicksburg, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Wayne Snuggs, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Presiding Justice.

The appellant Ada Gaines was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Warren County, Mississippi for the crime of murder. The jury fixed appellant's punishment at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and she was so sentenced.

The defendant has appealed to this Court and now complains that she did not get a fair trial…