Legal Opinion

Rowland v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 29, 2010No. 2008-CT-00731-SCTPublished

1Opinion of the Court

42 So.3d 503 (2010)

Robert Stanley ROWLAND

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 2008-CT-00731-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 29, 2010.

Robert Stanley Rowland, appellant, pro se.

Office of the Attorney General by John R. Henry, Jr., attorney for appellee.

EN BANC.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

LAMAR, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Robert Rowland and two codefendants pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and two counts of capital murder stemming from a 1979 incident. Rowland filed the instant petition for post-conviction collateral relief in 2007, claiming that the convictions and sentences for armed…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Menna v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Brown v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  3. Read v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
  4. Rowland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
  5. Luckett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991

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