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Smith v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 8, 1969No. 45554PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

229 So.2d 551 (1969)

Herman SMITH

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45554.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 8, 1969.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1970.

Eddie H. Tucker, R. Jess Brown, Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Velia Ann Mayer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

This is a case where a young single girl was raped by two young negro men. The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of the rape and sentenced to serve a term of life in the state penitentiary. These are the facts leading up to the sentence given the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  4. Andy Wallace Barnett, Robert Taylor Newman and Jack Coleman Stewart v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  5. Shinall v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1967

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Blue v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  2. Bevill v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
  3. Benson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  4. Haddox v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  5. Dancer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1998

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