Nixon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
533 So.2d 1078 (1987)
John B. NIXON, Sr.
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. DP-65.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
November 25, 1987.
Rehearing Denied November 30, 1988.
Clive A. Stafford Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Felicia C. Adams, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
En Banc:
PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
John B. Nixon, Sr. was convicted in the Circuit Court of Rankin County of capital murder of Mrs. Virginia Tucker as the trigger man in a murder-for-hire scheme. Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-19(2)(d) (1987) provides the…
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