Legal Opinion

Jefferson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 22, 1989No. 07-58547PublishedCited by 167 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

556 So.2d 1016 (1989)

Lester Lee JEFFERSON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 07-58547.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 22, 1989.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1990.

Raymond L. Wong, Cleveland, Miss., for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., elected Supreme Court Justice January 3, 1989, Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

Lester Lee Jefferson appeals his conviction of burglary and sentence of seven years imprisonment without parole as a habitual offender, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-81 (Supp. 1989). Our…

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2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  2. Neal v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  3. Evans v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1982
  4. Gray v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1979
  5. Harper v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1985

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3Cited by167 opinions

  1. Ross v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2007
  2. Taylor v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Anderson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Bishop v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2002
  5. Hannah v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2006

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