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JENKINS v. STATE

No. 56039.

483 So.2d 1330 (1986)

Donnie Ray JENKINS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 12, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raiford L. Pittman, Gulfport, for appellant.

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

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and SULLIVAN and ANDERSON, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Donnie Ray Jenkins was convicted of arson and, as he was subject to the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated § 99-19-81 (Supp. 1985), he was sentenced to twenty (20) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections without reduction, revocation or parole.

On June 1, 1982, Evelyn Dixon Smith and her sister, Jackie Dixon, went to a nightclub in North Gulfport. Evelyn had known Jenkins and Debra Moore all of her...

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