Beasley v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
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…
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