Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Ledbetter
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided July 20, 1977No. 49555PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
348 So.2d 1007 (1977)
Willis JOHNSON and Betty Johnson
v.
John LEDBETTER, Sheriff of Jackson County, Mississippi.
No. 49555.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
July 20, 1977.
Rehearing Denied August 24, 1977.
Alfred Lee Felder, Pascagoula, for appellants.
A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Edwin A. Snyder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before GILLESPIE, C.J., and SUGG and BROOM, JJ.
SUGG, Justice, for the Court:
This case comes to us on petitioners' appeal from an order of a Habeas Corpus Court in Jackson County denying their petition for writ of habeas corpus. The effect of the denial of the writ releases…
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