JACKSON v. STATE

No. 53640.

441 So.2d 1382 (1983)

Tommy Lee JACKSON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Evans, Jackson, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


BROOM, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Murder while engaged in robbery is the offense for which Tommy Lee Jackson was found guilty at his trial in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County. Mississippi Code Annotated § 97-3-19(2)(e) (Supp. 1983). Instead of ordering the death penalty, the jury fixed the punishment as life imprisonment. We find that the evidence presented was sufficient to prove the charge set forth in the indictment,...

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