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CUNNINGHAM v. STATE

No. 55980.

478 So.2d 308 (1985)

Jay B. CUNNINGHAM v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 30, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Tucker, III, Cook & Tucker, Bay St. Louis, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Harold H. Brittain, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and SULLIVAN, JJ.

DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

The Circuit Court of Hancock County indicted Jay Cunningham, along with three others, on charges of escaping from the Hancock County jail, where he was being held on a conviction of rape. Cunningham had been sentenced on the rape conviction to life imprisonment in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, but was apparently in the Hancock County jail awaiting the results of his appeal of that conviction.

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