Legal Opinion
West v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 25, 1998No. 94-DP-01200-SCTPublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
725 So.2d 872 (1998)
Tracy Lee WEST
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 94-DP-01200-SCT
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
June 25, 1998.
Rehearing Denied September 24, 1998.
James L. Davis, III, Donald Smith, Gulfport, John Holdridge, New Orleans, LA, for Appellant.
Office of the Attorney General by Leslie Staehle Lee, for Appellee.
EN BANC.
BANKS, Justice, FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. Tracy Lee West was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in August, 1994. Although we find no merit in any of the issues raised with regard to his conviction, we reverse his death sentence because his jury was not instructed that…
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