Legal Opinion
Killingsworth v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 28, 1986No. 57026PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
490 So.2d 849 (1986)
Milton KILLINGSWORTH
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 57026.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
May 28, 1986.
R.L. Wong, Cleveland, for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by DeWitt Allred, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
En Banc.
ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
We are today called upon to face yet another troublesome aftermath to the call of Gideon's trumpet.[1] Court-appointed counsel for an indigent convicted defendant has advised us that he has diligently and in good faith considered his client's prospects on appeal and found them hopeless. He seeks leave to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Hughes v. BookerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
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