MURPHY v. STATE

No. 49334.

337 So.2d 1262 (1976)

Frances MURPHY v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schissel & Harrigill, W.S. Stuckey, Jr., Greenwood, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Catherine Walker, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before INZER, SMITH and BROOM, JJ.


SMITH, Justice, for the Court.

Frances Murphy was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Washington County of the murder of her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment.

A review of the evidence, the sufficiency of which to support the conviction is challenged on appeal, reflects that appellant's husband was shot to death in the marital domicile by the "boyfriend" of appellant's daughter. The evidence leaves little doubt that the deceased husband had...

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