Legal Opinion

Fermo v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 9, 1979No. 51091PublishedCited by 57 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

370 So.2d 930 (1979)

James FERMO

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 51091.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 9, 1979.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1979.

Moore, Epps & Selph, Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Phillip H. Schwartz, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROBERTSON, P.J., and WALKER and LEE, JJ.

LEE, Justice, for the Court:

James Fermo was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, for the sale of three (3)pounds of marijuana. He was sentenced to a term of fifteen (15) years in the Mississippi Department…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. United States v. James Lee StockwellCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1973
  3. Commonwealth v. BetheaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  4. Johnson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1975
  5. Lamar v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1885

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3Cited by57 opinions

  1. Chase v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  2. Turner v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
  3. Howell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003
  4. Milano v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001
  5. Pearson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983

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