Peterson v. State

242 So.2d 420 (1970)

Fred PETERSON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 46085.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 21, 1970.

Harold J. DeMetz, Gulfport, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Velia Ann Mayer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

This case came to this Court from the Circuit Court of Stone County, Mississippi, in which the appellant, Fred Peterson, was indicted on a charge of having murdered Henry Lee Bond, a Negro policeman. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to suffer death.

The facts leading up to the tragedy, as told by State witnesses in the main, are as…