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Stevens v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 8, 1969No. 45594PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

228 So.2d 888 (1969)

Earnest Elmo STEVENS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45594.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 8, 1969.

Roy O. Parker, Tupelo, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. and Velia A. Mayer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

The Circuit Court of Lee County convicted Earnest Elmo Stevens of burglary and sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary, for breaking and entering an unoccupied house in Tupelo and removing several articles of antique furniture. Stevens' own admissions of guilt constituted…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Agee v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1966
  2. Lee v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1959
  3. Holmes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1951

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Neal v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  2. Holland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  3. Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  4. West v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1985
  5. Farr v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975

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