Legal Opinion

Bridges v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1986No. 56302PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

482 So.2d 1139 (1986)

Bennett BRIDGES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56302.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 29, 1986.

Kennie E. Middleton, Fayette, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and HAWKINS and ANDERSON, JJ.

HAWKINS, Justice, for the court:

Bennett Bridges pled guilty to a charge of capital murder before the circuit court of Jones County and was sentenced as a habitual offender under Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-81 (1972), to serve the remainder of his life in prison without parole. We affirm.

Bri…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Rummel v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  2. Clanton v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1973
  3. Ainsworth v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1974
  4. Baker v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1981
  5. McAdory v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1978

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Handley v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
  2. Sanders v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Magee v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  4. Jackson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  5. Earnest Varnado, Jr. v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2015

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