Herring v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Jefferson Davis county. Hon. W]. A. Si-iipman Special Judge. Marshall Herring was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder of one Gus Jefferson, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Gus Jefferson, a colored man, was shot and instantly killed at his home as he sat by an open screened window just after dark, or between 8 and 9 o’clock on a July evening. He was shot in the back, and upon investigation there is evidence of nine buckshots penetrating his body and nine holes in the wire screen of the window. The sheriff of the county was phoned for immediately and made an investigation, but no evidence could be *649obtained that night leading to…
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