Legal Opinion

Fields v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 25, 1974No. 47801PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

293 So.2d 430 (1974)

Theodoria FIELDS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 47801.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 25, 1974.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1974.

Firnist J. Alexander, Jr., Jackson, Constance Iona Slaughter, Forest, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by John C. Underwood, Jr., and Karen Gilfoy, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

BROOM, Justice:

Life imprisonment was the sentence given appellant upon his conviction for the crime of forcible rape. Trial was in the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi. We affirm.

The prosecutrix, an MSCW student, and two other young MSCW students…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Lang v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1956
  2. Cochran v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1973
  3. Evans v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1931
  4. Rush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1973
  5. McGee v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1950

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Woodward v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  2. Wright v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  3. Warn v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1977
  4. McQueen v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1982
  5. State v. RuskCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1981

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