LEATHERWOOD v. STATE

No. 53914.

435 So.2d 645 (1983)

Michael Dale LEATHERWOOD v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1983.

August 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilkins, Ellington & James, Samuel H. Wilkins, James O. Nelson, II, Jackson, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Carolyn B. Mills, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.


WALKER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, wherein the appellant, Michael Dale Leatherwood, pled guilty to the capital murder of Albert Taylor and was thereafter sentenced to suffer death upon a jury verdict so finding.

On Friday, August 22, 1980, Jerry Fuson, George Tokman, and the appellant Leatherwood left Fort Polk, Louisiana, for Jackson, Mississippi, in the appellant...

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