LANGSTON v. STATE

No. 51401.

373 So.2d 611 (1979)

Booker T. LANGSTON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 25, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund L. Baugh, Jr., Aberdeen, for appellant.

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

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and SUGG and WALKER, JJ.


PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Booker T. Langston was convicted in the Circuit Court of Monroe County for grand larceny and sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

There are two cardinal issues on appeal, the first being whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the appellant severance and second, whether it committed error in admitting a statement of the codefendant into evidence.

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