Burkhalter v. State

302 So.2d 503 (1974)

Wayne BURKHALTER

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 48133.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 4, 1974.

John L. Hopkins, Corinth, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Wayne Snuggs, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

BROOM, Justice:

A conviction of manslaughter and a seventeen years' penitentiary sentence (five years suspended) resulted from appellant's murder trial in the Circuit Court of Alcorn County, Mississippi. We affirm.

Two propositions are asserted as grounds for reversal. First, appellant argues that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence two…