Hooks v. State

197 So.2d 238 (1967)

Louie HOOKS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 44355.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 27, 1967.

Lawrence D. Arrington, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, for the crime of enticing a child under the age of fourteen years, for the felonious purpose of "concubinage or marriage." He was sentenced to serve a term of six years in the State Penitentiary, and from this sentence and…