Legal Opinion

Goodson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 11, 1990No. 07-KA-58650PublishedCited by 65 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

566 So.2d 1142 (1990)

Richard Dale GOODSON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 07-KA-58650.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 11, 1990.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 1990.

Duncan Lott, Booneville, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., elected Supreme Court Justice Jan. 3, 1989, Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., and George W. Neville and Pat Flynn, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice for the Court:

I

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2Cases cited114 opinions

  1. Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
  2. McFee v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  3. State v. PetrichWashington Supreme Court · 1984
  4. West v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  5. State v. MiddletonOregon Supreme Court · 1983

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3Cited by65 opinions

  1. Hansen v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Willover v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
  3. Carr v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
  4. Taylor v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  5. Davis v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996

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