Lewis v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Circuit Court of Hinds County of the murder of his father-in-law, John Ross, and sentenced to death. From that judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.

The ground assigned and argued for reversal was the giving of the following instruction for the State: ‘ ‘ The Court instructs the jury for the State that, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant, Eddie Lewis, armed himself with a shotgun and went to the premises of John Ross with the premeditated design unlawfully and feloniously to kill the said John Ross…