Shields v. State

Henry Shields was indicated and tried for the murder of Inez Gibson in the Circuit Court of Sharkey County, Mississippi. The jury found defendant guilty of man slaughter and he was sentenced to serve a term.of twenty years in the state penitentiary. Appellant has appealed, from the judgment and sentence of the trial court, and asserts that the jury was misled by three instructions granted to the State.

The evidence introduced in the trial court, as shown by the record, may be briefly summarized as follows:

Henry Shields came home on the night of June 3, 1961, and as he was in the process of…