Kitchens v. State

300 So.2d 922 (1974)

Jimmie KITCHENS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 48067.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 23, 1974.

Rehearing Denied October 21, 1974.

Travis Buckley, Laurel, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by John C. Underwood, Jr., Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Presiding Justice.

Jimmie Kitchens was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi, for the crime of murder. He has appealed to this Court and now contends that the trial court committed reversible errors by granting Instruction No. 5 for the State; refusing an…