Parks v. State

267 So.2d 302 (1972)

Wesley PARKS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 46902.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 9, 1972.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 1972.

Dyer & Dyer, Greenville, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by John M. Kinard, and J.B. Garretty, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

BRADY, Justice:

The appellant, indicted and tried for murder, was found guilty of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Sunflower County, Mississippi and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi. From that verdict and sentence he appeals to this Court.

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