Legal Opinion
Pearson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided April 20, 1936No. 32086PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The "appellant, Fedro Pearson, was jointly indicted' with Roosevelt Moon in the circuit court of Coahoma' county, for the murder' of J. C: Parker, a white' man” about seventy years of age, who operated a small-grocery store, on May 20, 1935, said store being situated about a mile from Clarksdale on the Friars Point road. There was a severance and this appeal is by Pearson. When the indictment-was returned by the grand-jury, one Pat D. Holcomb, .an attorney of the Clarksdale' was appointed to defend Pearson, and another was appointed to. defend Moon.
At the September, 1935, term of the circuit…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Norris v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Giles v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1928
3Cited by5 opinions
- Matthew Winters v. Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Gardner v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
- Black v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1966
- Moon v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1936
- Matthew Winters v. Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973