Sessum v. State

221 So.2d 368 (1969)

Cecil Victor SESSUM

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45174.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 14, 1969.

L. Percy Quinn, Laurel, for appellant.

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

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

Cecil Sessum, appellant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County of the murder of Vernon Dahmer and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. We affirm the judgment of the circuit court.

Dahmer, a Negro, lived with his wife and three children in a rural community out of Hattiesburg. Around…