Legal Opinion

Beasley v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 16, 2014No. 2012-KA-01595-SCTPublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Daniel Luther Beasley appeals from the verdict of an Amite County jury finding him guilty of murder. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. Janie Wilkinson owned a beauty salon behind her house in Liberty, Mississippi. She converted the salon into an apartment and allowed her nephew Daniel Beasley to live there. At a family gathering at Wilkinson’s house on Easter weekend of 2011, Wilkinson discussed converting the apartment back into a beauty salon for her granddaughter to operate. Wilkinson told Beasley that he would have to move out of the…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  2. Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. Bush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
  4. McClain v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1993
  5. Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Timothy Nelson Evans v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  2. Terry Pitchford v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  3. Burleson v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2015
  4. Haynes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  5. Thomas Glynn Flynt v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2015

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