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EDWARDS v. THIGPEN

No. 53298.

433 So.2d 906 (1983)

Leo E. EDWARDS, Petitioner, v. Morris THIGPEN, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections; Eddie Lucas, Warden, Mississippi State Penitentiary; T.B. Bruce, State Executioner; and the State of Mississippi, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 13, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanfield & Holderfield, Percy S. Stanfield, Jr., Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, David W. Clark, Jackson, for petitioner.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Amy D. Whitten, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for respondents.

En Banc:

BROOM, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Coram nobis and/or habeas corpus relief from his prior conviction of murder while engaged in robbery, and death penalty sentence, is the thrust of Leo E. Edwards' amended application before us.1 Edwards v. State, 413 So.2d 1007 (Miss. 1982). Facts set forth in the Edwards opinion show that he fatally shot...

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