Price v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and death sentence against appellant, a Negro, for the murder of his child of the age of three years.

Appellant obtained a high school diploma and had one year of college work at Alcorn College, after which he held responsible teaching positions, and was employed one year as an assistant to the county agricultural agent, under the emergency war food administration program. Por two years just prior to the killing, he had served as principal of the colored high school at Jonesboro, Arkansas, but after the close of school he returned to Mississippi…