Pace v. State

PATTERSON, Justice :

Sam Pace was indicted and convicted of manslaughter by the Circuit Court of Neshoba County and sentenced to serve fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

He presently contends the trial court erred in permitting state witnesses to be introduced out of order, in permitting the pistol of the accused to be introduced into evidence, in sentencing the defendant harshly and unjustly, and in failing to direct a verdict for the defendant. We affirm.

Between the hours of 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. on March 4, 1972, Sam Pace and A. C. Coleman were within Archie Felder’s cafe in Neshoba…