Johnson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
529 So.2d 577 (1988)
Leon JOHNSON
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 57526.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
May 18, 1988.
J. Richard Barry, Bourdeaux & Jones, Meridian, Joseph W. Hutchinson, III, Butler, Ala., for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and GRIFFIN, JJ.
PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
Leon Johnson, the defendant below, was tried on a capital murder indictment with an underlying crime of robbery and appeals his conviction of murder and life sentence in the Circuit Court of…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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