Lord v. State

The appellant, Marvis Bernis Lord, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County for the murder of Thomas Walton Johnston, tried and convicted of the crime of manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

*14 The only assignment of error argued is that the court erred in refusing the requested peremptory instruction under the rule announced in the Weathersby case, 165 Miss. 207, 147 So. 481. We find no merit in this assignment.

The appellant testified in his own behalf.- On his own testimony and the physical facts,…