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COON v. LEDBETTER

Nos. 83-4215, 85-4048 and 85-4235.

780 F.2d 1158 (1986)

Billy Dan COON, Racheal Elizabeth Coon, Who Sues by Her Guardian and Next Friend, Dana Coon, and Dana Coon, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. John LEDBETTER, Individually and In His Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, MS, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watkins & Eager, Frank J. Hammond, III, John G. Corlew, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

Carol A. Cross, William Roberts Wilson, Jr., Robert W. Wilkinson, Pascagoula, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before GARWOOD, DAVIS, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

I

When fighting led to shooting in a Mississippi tavern, Billy Dan Coon and his friend Buddy Nelson departed the scene. Coon said later that a man named Tanner had threatened him with a knife, stated that he knew where Coon lived, and warned that he would get him later. As Coon and Nelson drove away, apparently with dispatch, they hit another car, but quickly left that scene as well. Coon then left Nelson at Coon's...

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