Blanks v. State

542 So.2d 222 (1989)

Boots C. (Buddy) BLANKS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 58318.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 15, 1989.

Samuel H. Wilkins, Jackson, for appellant.

Mike Moore, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Mark Twain, Following the Equator.

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