Legal Opinion

Walters v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided August 20, 1998No. 96-KA-00400-SCTPublishedCited by 68 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

720 So.2d 856 (1998)

Leonard WALTERS, a/k/a Leonard James Walters

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 96-KA-00400-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 20, 1998.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1998.

Sally J. O'Flynn, Hattiesburg, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Deidre McCrory, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for Appellee.

En Banc.

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This case comes to this Court on appeal of Leonard Walters from the Circuit Court of Forrest County. Walters was indicted as an habitual offender pursuant to Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-81 for the crime of murder with malice aforethought.…

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2Cases cited61 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Stringer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  4. Wetz v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  5. Billiot v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984

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3Cited by68 opinions

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