Legal Opinion
Burns v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided October 11, 2001No. 1999-DR-01392-SCTPublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
813 So.2d 668 (2001)
Joseph Daniel BURNS a/k/a "JoJo" Burns,
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 1999-DR-01392-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
October 11, 2001.
Rehearing Denied April 18, 2002.
Michael Adelman, Hattiesburg, Attorney for Appellant.
Office of the Attorney General by Judy T. Martin, Attorney for Appellee.
EN BANC.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
PITTMAN, C.J., for the Court:
¶ 1. Joseph Daniel Burns a/k/a JoJo Burns was convicted of the capital murder of Floyd Melvin McBride in Lee County in 1996. After the sentencing phase, Burns was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Burns's conviction and sentence…
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