SMITH v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

No. 72-1325.

478 F.2d 88 (1973)

Will Allen SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Prewitt, Vicksburg, Miss., court-appointed, for petitioner-appellant.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., John M. Kinard, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Timmie Hancock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondent-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

Presented by the appeal in this federal habeas corpus action is the single question whether petitioner Will Allen Smith is wrongfully incarcerated in the Mississippi State Penitentiary under the U. S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment due process clause by reason of violation of the Fifth Amendment's proscription against double jeopardy. The question arises because a mistrial was declared at Smith's first state court trial by reason of a...

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