Yates v. State

This is the same case as Yates v. State, 251 Miss. 376, 169 So. 2d 792 (Miss. 1964). A reading of that case will disclose that appellant’s conviction there was reversed and the case remanded for another trial because of the failure of the lower court to grant court-appointed attorneys for appellant sufficient time to investigate his mental capacity.

On the retrial the facts were substantially the same as those given in the above report with the exception that in the second trial no written confession was introduced. On retrial, appellant was again convicted and sentenced to death. The case…