May v. State

199 So.2d 635 (1967)

Durwood MAY

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 44433.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1967.

Walker & Sullivan, Mendenhall, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by R. Hugo Newcomb, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

Durwood May, appellant, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Circuit Court of Simpson County, Mississippi, on a charge of having murdered his wife, Daisy Ann May. He appealed to this Court, and has presented several serious assignments of error. We have concluded that the case must be reversed for a…