Legal Opinion
Walker v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided December 17, 1956No. 40269PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
Oliver Lee Walker was indicted for, and convicted of, feloniously receiving stolen property; and from a sentence of three years in the state penitentiary, he appealed.
The State’s proof showed that, on November 30, 1955, a trailer owned by Nott Wheeler, in which was loaded about two thousand pounds of his snapped cotton, disappeared from his shed. Several days later, the trailer was found stripped of its wheels and tires. The tires of which Wheeler had kept a record of the serial numbers, were found on the pickup truck of Willie Rogers and the truck of Sammy McNeil. Rogers and McNeil, together…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Gibson v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Williams v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Boutwell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1932
- Head v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1870
- Cole v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1953
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Matthew Winters v. Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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