Legal Opinion
Foster v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 27, 1987No. DP-59PublishedCited by 331 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
508 So.2d 1111 (1987)
James Henry FOSTER
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. DP-59.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
May 27, 1987.
Gaines S. Dyer, Dyer, Dyer, Dyer & Jones, Greenville, for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before En Banc.
WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:
James Henry Foster was charged by indictment with the capital murder of Ruby Jean Elliott. In a bifurcated trial in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County, he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. From that conviction he…
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