Bell v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTSON, Presiding Justice,
for the Court:
McKinley Bell was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Warren County for armed robbery. He was sentenced to serve a term of thirty-five years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. On appeal, Bell assigns as error:
I. The court erred in allowing the state to present Prentiss Simmons, Jr., a Co-indictee of the appellant, to various witnesses for purposes of identification.
II.The court erred in allowing the state to question one of its witnesses, Willie Mae Brock, regarding her extrajudicial identification of the appellant.
III. The…
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