Legal Opinion
James Murphy, Jr. v. S.W. Puckett
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1990No. 89-4418PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:
The State of Mississippi (the state) appeals the district court’s order granting James Murphy’s (Murphy) petition for ha-beas corpus. We affirm.
I
In December 1981, Murphy was convicted of capital murder with burglary and armed robbery as the underlying felonies. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. In November 1982, on a separate indictment, he was convicted of armed robbery. Both trials arose out of the same incident, and the armed robbery charge on which Murphy was convicted in 1982 was for the same armed robbery which served as one of the underlying felonies…
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