Legal Opinion

Billiot v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided June 6, 1984No. 54960PublishedCited by 467 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

454 So.2d 445 (1984)

James E. BILLIOT

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 54960.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 6, 1984.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 1984.

Yvonne Chapman Sills, Nicholas M. Haas, Bay St. Louis, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Catherine Walker Underwood, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before the court en banc.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

James E. Billiot was indicted for the capital murder of Wallace J. Croll, Jr., by the grand jury of Hancock County, Mississippi. Billiot obtained a change of venue and was thereafter in a bifurcated trial found guilty and…

2Cases cited103 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Engle v. IsaacSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Jurek v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by467 opinions

  1. McClain v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1993
  2. Stringer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  3. Hansen v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Ballenger v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Chase v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994

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