Evans v. State

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The appellant, defendant below, was charged in a grand jury indictment with committing murder in the first degree, while serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, by stabbing to death Lonnie J. Coe with a knife. Upon a plea of not guilty he was convicted in a jury trial in the Circuit Court on November 7, 1975, of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for 120 years; from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

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