HARVESTON v. STATE

No. 56376.

493 So.2d 365 (1986)

Roger Lynn HARVESTON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Boerner, Robert D. Underwood, Boerner & Underwood, Brookhaven, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today's twenty-two year old Appellant seeks relief from his life sentence imposed following his conviction of murder. No difficult or novel questions of law are presented. Rather, the case serves to remind us of the awesome responsibility shouldered by those oft-maligned citizens, our jurors.

Twelve Lincoln County jurors who could not know what really happened were asked to sort out an exclusive tale of death...

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