Boyles v. State

223 So.2d 651 (1969)

Wayne BOYLES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45461.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 26, 1969.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1969.

Townsend & Young, Drew, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Sunflower County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant, Wayne Boyles, who had been indicted for murder for the July 7, 1968, killing of Claude Hughes at Mr. Rogers' store on Sunflower Plantation, having entered a plea of "not guilty," was tried and convicted of the crime of…