Legal Opinion

Caldwell v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 18, 1985No. 54285PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

481 So.2d 850 (1985)

Bobby CALDWELL

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 54285.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 18, 1985.

Kenneth J. Rose, Jackson, Robert B. McDuff, University, Dennis Sweet, Montgomery, Ala., for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Amy D. Whitten and Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

ON MOTION TO VACATE OR SET ASIDE JUDGMENT

Bobby Caldwell was convicted of capital murder in the Circuit Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi and sentenced to death. This Court affirmed the sentence and conviction in…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  4. Caldwell v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Johnson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1985

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3Cited by48 opinions

  1. Griffin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
  2. Lockett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  3. Walker v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
  4. William L. Wiley v. Steve W. Puckett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
  5. Goff v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009

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