NEAL v. STATE

No. 54739.

451 So.2d 743 (1984)

Howard Monteville NEAL v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Clay, Jackson, Joe Dale Walker, Monticello, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Amy D. Whitten, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Richard Douglass, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

En Banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Howard Monteville Neal has been indicted, tried and convicted of the capital murder of his 13-year-old half-niece, Amanda Joy Neal. The jury subsequently decreed that for his crime he must die.

At the core of this appeal is Neal's challenge to the admissibility into evidence at his trial of a full confession he gave law enforcement officers following his arrest. To be sure, if the confession be excluded Neal...

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