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Ward v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 12, 1984No. 54508PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

461 So.2d 724 (1984)

Ricky WARD

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 54508.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1984.

Robert E. Buck, Walls, Buck & Irving, Greenville, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

On overwhelming evidence Ricky Ward has been convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and forcible rape and has been sentenced to life imprisonment on each conviction, the three sentences to be served consecutively. Our only serious legal concern on this…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. Ohio v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Stringer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  5. Read v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Moawad v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  2. Brown v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Wilcher v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1985
  4. Burney v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  5. McCarty v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989

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