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MATTHEWS v. STATE

No. 42086.

243 Miss. 568 (1962)

139 So.2d 386

MATTHEWS v. STATE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Jacobs, Jr., Cleveland, for appellant.

G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, J.

This case came to this Court on appeal from the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County, Mississippi, where the defendant, Willie Matthews, had been indicted for the murder of J.L. Ramsey and was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary.

The series of events leading up to the fatal stabbing of the deceased began about...

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