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170 Miss. 581

155 So 430

Jones v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided June 11, 1934

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1934-06-11

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Decided 1934-06-11

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Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1989

8 state decisions

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*589 Smith, O. J.,

¶1 delivered a dissenting opinion.

¶2 In order that my views may be clearly understood, it will be necessary for me to restate the case and include some facts therein that I deem material, not set forth in the main opinion. I will not pause to do this, but will simply say that I am of the opinion that the requested instruction limiting the conviction of the appellant to manslaughter was properly refused. The evidence justified a conviction of either murder or manslaughter, depending on the presence vel non of malice on the part of the appellant when he fired the fatal shot. This was a question of fact for the jury.

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