Legal Opinion

Bell v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 12, 1978No. 50507PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROBERTSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

McKinley Bell was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Warren County for armed robbery. He was sentenced to serve a term of thirty-five years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. On appeal, Bell assigns as error:

I. The court erred in allowing the state to present Prentiss Simmons, Jr., a Co-indictee of the appellant, to various witnesses for purposes of identification.

II.The court erred in allowing the state to question one of its witnesses, Willie Mae Brock, regarding her extrajudicial identification of the appellant.

III. The…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. United States v. MatlockSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. United States v. PetersonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
  3. William L. Maxwell v. Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
  4. Fells v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1977
  5. Kendall v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1971

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Wilcher v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  2. Hudson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1985
  3. Jesse Lee Robinson v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2025

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