Legal Opinion
Fannings v. State
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
Decided December 16, 2008No. 2007-KA-00112-COAPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
997 So.2d 953 (2008)
James Arthur FANNINGS, Jr., Appellant
v.
STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.
No. 2007-KA-00112-COA.
Court of Appeals of Mississippi.
December 16, 2008.
Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenville, attorney for appellant.
Office of the Attorney General by Deirdre McCrory, Jackson, attorney for appellee.
Before MYERS, P.J., GRIFFIS, BARNES and ISHEE, JJ.
BARNES, J., for the Court.
¶ 1. A Bolivar County jury found James Arthur Fannings, Jr., guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Stacey Hazelton (Stacey). The trial judge sentenced Fannings to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi…
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