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SMITH v. STATE

No. 56301.

492 So.2d 260 (1986)

Willie Albert SMITH v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Brantley, Jr., Jackson, Albert X. Bader, John J. Kenney, David Massengill, New York City, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., and Amy D. Whitten, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from a denial of a new trial on a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. It must be remembered throughout this opinion that the evidence at the original trial was overwhelming beyond a reasonable doubt that Willie Albert Smith did brutally murder Shirley Roberts on March 15, 1981. It also must be remembered, however, that it has been clearly established that two of the state's witnesses committed...

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