Legal Opinion

Evans v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided February 19, 1973No. 46894PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

273 So.2d 495 (1973)

Monroe Harold EVANS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 46894.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 19, 1973.

David M. Lipman, Oxford, Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenwood, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by John M. Kinard and Karen Gilfoy, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

SMITH, Justice:

Monroe Harold Evans was convicted of armed robbery in the Circuit Court of Harrison County and sentenced to serve a term of 30 years in the penitentiary. He predicates an appeal upon the grounds that (1) he was denied the "effective assistance" of counsel, and (2) the trial court…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  3. United States of America Ex Rel. William Davis v. Hon. Daniel McMann Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York,respondent-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
  4. James Columbus Shaw v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
  5. State v. AustinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971

3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Evans v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  2. York v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1982
  3. Metcalf v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1993
  4. Johnson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  5. Corley v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988

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