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WEST v. STATE

No. 55443.

463 So.2d 1048 (1985)

Tony Wells WEST a/k/a Samuel Tony Wells v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Sessums, Varner, Parker & Sessums, Vicksburg, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by William S. Boyd, III, and Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

EN BANC.

WALKER, Presiding Justice, For the Court:

Tony West was convicted of the capital murder of Kirby Phelps and sentenced to be executed. West was tried in the Circuit Court of Warren County. West appeals his conviction and sentence.

On December 13, 1982 West and Kenneth Avery Brock robbed and killed Dr. Charles Scudder and Joseph Odum in Trion, Chattoga County, Georgia. West and Brock took their victims' jeep and headed west along Interstate Highway 20. At a...

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