DICKINS v. STATE

No. 37490.

208 Miss. 69 (1949)

43 So.2d 366

DICKINS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, In Banc.

December 12, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.D. Conn, Jr., and B.B. Wilkes, for appellant.

J.T. Patterson, Assistant Attorney General, and Stanny Sanders, District Attorney, and Willard L. McIlwain, County Attorney, for appellee.


Montgomery, J.

The appellant, Mrs. Ruth Thompson Dickins, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Washington County for the murder of her mother, Mrs. Idella Long Thompson, and was found guilty of the charge by the jury, which was unable to agree upon the punishment, and she was by the Court sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary.

Mrs. Thompson lived on Deer Creek Drive in the City of Leland, and her...

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