Box v. State

437 So.2d 19 (1983)

John Albert BOX

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 54105.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 24, 1983.

Jon M. Barnwell, Whitman D. Mounger, Greenwood, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Bill Patterson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

EN BANC.

HAWKINS, Justice, for the Court:

I

At dusk on the evening of July 27, 1981, Ms. Catherine B. Short was robbed at gunpoint in her home in Greenwood, Mississippi. In due course on October 16, 1981, John Albert Box, defendant below and appellant here, together with two others, Robyn Sabrina Russell and Timothy Ray Davis, were charged…