Legal Opinion

Whittington v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 16, 1988No. 57308PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

523 So.2d 966 (1988)

James Michael WHITTINGTON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57308.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 16, 1988.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1988.

K. Maxwell Graves, Jr., Meadville, J. Carl Parkerson, J. Randolph Smith, Monroe, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

James Michael Whittington appeals from his conviction in the circuit court of Franklin County of murder of his wife Patricia R. Whittington and sentence to life imprisonment. This is a…

Also in this document: Dissent; Concurrence.

2Cases cited70 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Smith v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Wetz v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  4. Carter v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. Billiot v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984

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3Cited by48 opinions

  1. Holland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Holland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  3. White v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  4. Harrison v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  5. Goff v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009

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