Legal Opinion

Snelson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 6, 1997No. 93-DP-00023-SCTPublishedCited by 200 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

704 So.2d 452 (1997)

Rickey Lynn SNELSON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 93-DP-00023-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 6, 1997.

James W. Craig, A. Randall Harris, Jackson, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson; Marvin L. White Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson; Jeffrey A. Klingfuss, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.

BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Snelson was convicted of the capital murder of Stephen Goode, kidnaping and third degree arson. Because we find trial error of a magnitude that we cannot say that the determination of guilt and sentence were not…

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2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Enmund v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Chase v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  3. Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  4. Holland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  5. MacK v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994

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3Cited by200 opinions

  1. Gray v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1998
  2. Byrom v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003
  3. Simmons v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001
  4. Underwood v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1998
  5. Howell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003

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