Legal Opinion

Russell v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 7, 1995No. 93-DP-00418-SCTPublishedCited by 212 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

670 So.2d 816 (1995)

Willie RUSSELL

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 93-DP-00418-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 7, 1995.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 1996.

W.S. Stuckey, Jr., Stuckey & Stuckey, Greenwood, Whitman D. Mounger, Greenwood, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jackson, Marvin L. White, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.

DAN M. LEE, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Willie Russell ("Russell") was convicted of the capital murder of Argentra Cotton ("Cotton"), a Mississippi Department of Corrections Officer, on October 4, 1990, and sentenced to…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited145 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Enmund v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Morgan v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. Clemons v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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3Cited by212 opinions

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