HICKSON v. STATE

No. 54779.

472 So.2d 379 (1985)

Denver Ray HICKSON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Vol Jones, Jr., Waynesboro, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Frankie Walton White, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Jack Lacy, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This case begins with the unexplained disappearance of a young prostitute from the Mississippi Gulf Coast back in April of 1982. A month later a group of youths swimming playfully in Thompson Creek in Wayne County have an eerie encounter with a wrapped and weighted body. The case moves from the morbid to the macabre as the prosecuting attorney displayed to the jury the deformed hands of the deceased, pickled in a jar...

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