Legal Opinion
Simon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided February 20, 1997No. 91-DP-00353-SCTPublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
PITTMAN, Justice,
for the Court:
Motion for Rehearing is denied. The original opinions in this case are withdrawn and these opinions are substituted therefor.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On February 3, 1990, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Simon, Jr. was arrested for the murders of Carl, Bobbie Joe, Charlotte and Gregory Parker. The February 2,1990, murders were committed in the course of arson, robbery, burglary, sexual assault and kidnaping.
In March of 1990, Simon was charged by a Quitman County grand jury, in four separate indictments, with the capital murders of Carl,…
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