Legal Opinion
Sims v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 12, 1975No. 48187PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
313 So.2d 27 (1975)
James SIMS
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 48187.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
May 12, 1975.
Roy Pitts, Meridian, for appellant.
A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Vera Madel Speakes, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
SMITH, Justice:
James Sims was convicted of the unlawful sale of marijuana, a controlled substance, in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the penitentiary. He has appealed from that conviction.
Except for a chemical identification of the substance as marijuana, the State's case against Sims consisted of the testimony…
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- State v. TaylorMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
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