Legal Opinion

Jenkins v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 18, 2000No. 97-CT-01117-SCTPublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

759 So.2d 1229 (2000)

Hanson JENKINS, Jr., a/k/a "Bob"

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 97-CT-01117-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 18, 2000.

Richard A. Rehfeldt, Jackson, A. Randall Harris, Ridgeland, Attorneys for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Attorney for Appellee.

EN BANC.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

BANKS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. We grant certiorari in this case to consider the interpretation of the manifest necessity requirement attentive to claims founded upon double jeopardy and arising out of the grant of a mistrial. We conclude that the Court of…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Arizona v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. United States v. PerezSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
  4. Thompson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  5. Nicholson on Behalf of Gollott v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. McDowell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001
  2. Knox v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2005
  3. Curtis Leslie v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2015
  4. Gaskin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2004
  5. Alvin Brown v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2016

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