Legal Opinion

Townsend v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided August 1, 1996No. 92-KA-01010-SCTPublishedCited by 43 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

681 So.2d 497 (1996)

William B. TOWNSEND, Jr.,

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 92-KA-01010-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 1, 1996.

Robert N. Brooks, Barnett & Brooks, Carthage, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jean Smith Vaughan, Sp. Asst. Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

Before SULLIVAN, P.J., and SMITH and MILLS, JJ.

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

INTRODUCTION

On September 9, 1992, appellant William Townsend was convicted in the Circuit Court of Leake County for possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, namely methamphetamine, and as a second offender, he was…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Concurring in part, dissenting in part; Dissent.

2Cases cited50 opinions

  1. Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
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  3. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. United States v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. United States v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973

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