Prine v. State

Appellant Joe Prine was indicted jointly with his father, T. M. Prine, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson Davis County for the murder of D. S. Evans. The father was tried first, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He appealed from that judgment to this court and the judgment of conviction was affirmed. Prine v. State, 188 Miss. 147, 193 So. 446. Later the son was tried and convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The state’s testimony, if true, showed that appellant was attempting to murder the deceased Evans when…