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BRUNO v. COOK

No. 45595.

224 So.2d 567 (1969)

Anthony J. BRUNO v. Thomas D. COOK, Superintendent of the State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan, Dunbar & Smith, Clarksdale, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

Anthony J. Bruno, appellant, filed in the Circuit Court of Benton County a petition for release on a writ of habeas corpus, against Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the State Penitentiary. On a charge of burglary, Bruno earlier had been sentenced to the penitentiary after he had entered a plea of nolo contendere. The circuit court denied the petition. We hold that, although the plea of nolo contendere is not available in this jurisdiction...

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