Childs v. State

240 So.2d 611 (1970)

Herman CHILDS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45953.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 2, 1970.

John B. Farese, Ashland, Robert W. Elliott, Ripley, Peggy A. Jones, Ashland, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Timmie Hancock, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

SMITH, Justice.

At the January 1968 Term of the Circuit Court of Tippah County the grand jury indicted Herman Childs for murder in connection with the fatal shooting of one Bobby Willingham. Upon his first trial under the indictment, the jury was unable to arrive at a verdict and a mistrial was entered. At a…