JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 55265.

477 So.2d 196 (1985)

Samuel JOHNSON, a/k/a Samuel Bice Johnson v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Rose, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by William S. Boyd, III and Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Bob Evans, Dist. Atty., Magee, for appellee.

En Banc.


HAWKINS, Justice, for the Court:

On December 31, 1981, around two o'clock in the afternoon Mississippi Highway Safety Patrolman Billy M. Langham, while acting in line of duty, was murdered on U.S. Highway 49 in Covington County, at the city limits of Collins. He was stabbed with a butcher knife in the back between his shoulder blades, and shot at close range with his own revolver.

Samuel Bice Johnson, one of three men indicted for his murder, following a change...

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