DYCUS v. STATE

No. 51781.

396 So.2d 23 (1981)

Earl DYCUS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Reid Welch and Mary Carroll Henkel, Jackson, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen., by Karen Gilfoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and BROOM and LEE, JJ.


BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

Murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence resulted from Earl Dycus's (defendant's) trial in the Circuit Court of Yazoo County sitting in Warren County following a change of venue. Most serious legal proposition argued here by the defendant is his contention that his handwritten inculpatory statement was erroneously admitted into evidence under the rationale of Dunaway v. New York, 442 U.S. 200

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