Long v. State

The appellant, J. J. Long* Jr., was indicted at the November, 1931, term of the circuit court of Leflore county, Mississippi, for the murder of Elmer Stowers, and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, from which he appeals.

The appellant says that he was engaged in farming and-lived alone, being a single man; that, prior to the killing, Stowers' approached Long in a barber shop and asked him what he was going to do Tuesday night, to which Long replied “nothing, why,” and Stowers stated that he wanted to bring out some girls and some liquor, and that Long…