Johnson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
508 So.2d 1126 (1987)
Edward Earl JOHNSON
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. DP-16.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
June 3, 1987.
Barry H. Powell, Thomas, Price, Alston, Jones & Davis, R. Jess Brown, Kenneth J. Rose, Sweet & Rose, Jackson, Robert B. McDuff, Washington, D.C., Clive A. Stafford Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before En Banc.
DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:
Edward Earl Johnson was indicted, tried, and convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of J.T. Trest. Trest, the Town Marshall of…
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