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121 Miss. 433

Williams v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1919

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1919-10-15

Hon. H. H. Elmore, Judge. On suggestion of error, suggestion sustained and cause reversed and .remanded. For former opinion see 82' So. 318,-120 Miss. 604.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1936

3 state decisions

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Decided 1919-10-15

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Cook, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2A re-examination of the law of this case has convinced xne that I was in error when I voted to affirm the judgment of the trial court, sentencing appellant to death. It is now my opinion that the facts did not warrant a conviction of murder. Section 1237, Code of 1906, was designed to meet just such cases as is made by the record before us.

¶3It follows that I concur in the opinion written by Judge Holden (82 So. 318). Nothing I could say would add anything to his thorough and able discussion of the law and facts.

¶4The judgment of the- trial court will be reversed, and the cause remanded for a retrial in accordance with the principles announced in the aforementioned opinion.

¶5Reversed and remanded,.

Ethridge, Holden, and Stevens, JJ., concurring.Sykes and Smith, JJ., dissenting.
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