Beckwith v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
615 So.2d 1134 (1992)
Byron De La BECKWITH
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 91-IA-1207.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
December 16, 1992.
Rehearing Denied April 22, 1993.
Merrida Coxwell, Stanfield Carmody & Coxwell, Jim Kitchens, Kitchens & Ellis, Jackson, for appellant.
Edward J. Peters, Hinds County Dist. Atty., Bobby B. DeLaughter, Asst. Dist. Atty., Jackson, for appellee.
En Banc.
HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:
Medgar Evers, a black civil rights activist and leader in the turbulent 1950s-1960s civil rights struggles, was murdered at his home in Jackson June 12, 1963. Byron De La Beckwith, a…
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