Lomax v. State

McG-ehee, O. J.

The appellant Mandy Lomax, a negro woman, was indicted for the alleged murder of another negro woman, Lee Dora Lewellyn, and was convicted of manslaughter.

On this appeal there are five grounds of alleged error assigned, but in view of the conclusion that we have reached it is only necessary that we discuss one of them, and that is whether or not the rule announced in the case of Weathersby v. State, 165 Miss. 207, 147 So. 481, and in other cases decided both prior and subsequent thereto, is applicable in the instant case. That rule is that “Where the defendant or the…