Boyd v. State

523 So.2d 1037 (1988)

Robert BOYD, Jr.

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57681.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 27, 1988.

R.L. Wong, Cleveland, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and SULLIVAN and GRIFFIN, JJ.

ROY NOBLE LEE, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Robert Boyd, Jr. was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District, Bolivar County, Mississippi, for murder less than capital and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi…