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JOHNSTON v. STATE

No. 90-KA-1098.

618 So.2d 90 (1993)

Chester Jordan JOHNSTON, Jr. v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 22, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.J. Townsend, Jr., Townsend McWilliams & Holladay, Drew; James N. Sherman, Jr., Townsend McWilliams & Holladay, Indianola, for appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Mary Margaret Bowers, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and SULLIVAN and BANKS, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

In June of 1976, Ralph Taylor Edwards, Jr., was found dead in his automobile near Indianola, Mississippi. He had been robbed and shot in the head.

In 1981, Highway Patrol Officer Jessie Bingham got a tip from an inmate that Johnston had been involved in Edwards' killing, which he related to Sheriff Sessums. Bingham and the sheriff went through the sheriff's file on the Edwards case...

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