Legal Opinion
Edlin v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 1988No. 57562PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
523 So.2d 42 (1988)
John Wayne EDLIN
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 57562.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
March 9, 1988.
Rehearing Denied April 27, 1988.
Guy M. Walker, Laurel, for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before HAWKINS, P.J., and SULLIVAN and ZUCCARO, JJ.
SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:
John Wayne Edlin was convicted of the murder of Paula Diane Sims and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi. Edlin appeals assigning seven alleged errors by the trial court.
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