Legal Opinion
State v. Mays
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 16, 1976No. 48953PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
329 So.2d 65 (1976)
STATE of Mississippi
v.
Marvin MAYS.
No. 48953.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
March 16, 1976.
Rehearing Denied April 13, 1976.
Tommy McWilliams, Asst. Dist. Atty., Drew, A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by John C. Underwood, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.
W.C. Trotter, III, Belzoni, for appellee.
Before GILLESPIE, C.J., and ROBERTSON and WALKER, JJ.
ROBERTSON, Justice:
Marvin Mays was indicted by the grand jury in the Circuit Court of Sunflower County for the crime of sodomy. The circuit court sustained a motion to quash the indictment, finding in its order:
"[T]hat the…
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