Jackson v. State

Tim Jackson was indicted for the murder of Jo Ann Jackson. The jury found him guilty as charged,- and the court sentenced him to suffer the death penalty. From the judgment entered, he has appealed.

Strickland Bullard and his wife, Lillian, Negroes, lived on a farm in the Horn Lake district of DeSoto County, Mississippi. Jo Ann Jackson, eight years of age, a niece of Lillian, had lived with them about five years; and Jacquelyn Jackson, another niece, six years of age, *204was visiting them. Tim Jackson, twenty-one years of age, a brother of Lillian, in January 1963, began to work for his…