Legal Opinion
Shields v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided February 27, 1997No. 92-KA-01067-SCTPublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
702 So.2d 380 (1997)
Joseph E. SHIELDS
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 92-KA-01067-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
February 27, 1997.
James D. Minor, Oxford, for appellant.
Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Laura Hogan Tedder, Special Assistant Attorney General, Oxford, for appellee.
En Banc.
BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
The matter before the Court involves an appeal from a conviction of burglary where we are called upon to decide whether proof of possession of stolen articles, without more, is sufficient to convict a person for the crime of burglary. We conclude that the possession of stolen…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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