Sanford v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
372 So.2d 276 (1979)
Bobby Louis SANFORD
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 50894.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
May 30, 1979.
Walls & Buck, Robert E. Buck, Greenville, for appellant.
A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Robert D. Findley, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
BROOM, Justice, for the Court:
Forcible rape is the crime for which Bobby Louis Sanford was convicted in the Circuit Court of Yalobusha County. He appeals from a sentence of fifty years imprisonment, and bases his argument in the main on the trial court's rejection of his requested "alibi" jury instruction. We affirm.[1]
David Thorpe and…
Also in this document: Dissent.
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Harrison v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1973
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