Wilks v. State

408 So.2d 68 (1981)

Calvin WILKS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 53198.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 16, 1981.

Rehearing Denied January 20, 1982.

W.E. Gore, Jr. and Robert G. Nichols, Jr., Jackson, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, SUGG and LEE, JJ.

LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Calvin Wilks was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District, Hinds County, Honorable William F. Coleman, presiding, on a charge of murder, was sentenced to a life term with the Mississippi…