SC v. State

583 So.2d 188 (1991)

In the Interest of S.C.[1]

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 90-CA-0621.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 19, 1991.

Joe Sam Owen, Gulfport, for appellant.

Woodrow W. Pringle, III, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I

This appeal charges that we consider whether and under what circumstances our Constitution allows public school officials to search a student's locker. The case arises in an ugly setting, all too familiar today, but still one that should not occur: a high school student has a gun at school.

We…