Boyd v. State

Haskel V. Boyd appeals from a conviction of manslaughter.

Defendant shot and killed James White about nine o ’clock in the evening of April 25, 1964, in front of the Hi Hat Club in Pike County, Mississippi.

Defendant is a young married man. On Saturday night he went to the Hi Hat Club with J. C. Conerly and Maxie Gardner. There are several versions as to the acts and statements of the parties between the time defendant and his companions arrived at the Hi Hat Clnb and the time of the fatal shooting. There was evidence that defendant had been drinking. One of the State’s witnesses testified that…