Legal Opinion

McGehee v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 6, 1925No. 24707PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.

The appellants, Lorenzo McGehee and Jimmie Mc-Gehee, were indicted for the murder of one Norris Diamond. Lorenzo McGehee was convicted of murder and sentenced for life, and Jimmie McGehee convicted of manslaughter and sentenced for seven years in the penitentiary.

It appears from the evidence that on the evening of the killing that Jimmie McGehee, a boy of some seventeen years of age, went to the home of Norris Diamond, a man some thirty-three or thirty-four years of age, for the purpose, as related by Jimmie McGehee in his testimony, of getting a car of Diamond’s to carry some young ladies to…

2Cited by20 opinions

  1. Maye v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
  2. Pitts v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1951
  3. Crockerham v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1947
  4. Vance v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1938
  5. Busby v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1936

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