COVAN v. STATE

No. 51249.

374 So.2d 833 (1979)

Johnny Lee COVAN v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Vincent Blackwell, Pascagoula, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Calvin Coolidge Williams, Jr., Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before SMITH, LEE and BOWLING, JJ.


SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Johnny Lee Covan was charged by indictment with the crime of rape. He was tried and convicted of that offense in the Circuit Court of Jackson County and sentenced to life imprisonment. He has appealed, assigning as grounds for reversal the following:

(1) There was no probable cause for his arrest.

(2) The trial court erred in refusing to dismiss the case upon the ground that the State had failed to comply with...

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