Clark v. State

398 So.2d 229 (1981)

Jessie Junior CLARK

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 52627.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 20, 1981.

Roy Pitts, Franklin M. Coleman, Meridian, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROBERTSON, SUGG and LEE, JJ.

LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Jessie Junior Clark was indicted and tried in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County for murder, Honorable Henry Palmer, presiding. The jury found Clark guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced by the trial judge to a term of eighteen (18) years in the Mississippi…