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WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. DP-56.

544 So.2d 782 (1987)

Jessie Derrell WILLIAMS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

As Modified On Rehearing June 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Fortner, Pascagoula, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court on Parts I-V; ROY NOBLE LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court on Part VI.

When, on the evening of January 11, 1983, Karon Ann Pierce entered the Scoreboard Lounge in Jackson County, Mississippi, she set in motion the series of events that would lead to her death and the conviction of Jessie Derrell Williams for the crime of capital murder, and his sentence, by a jury in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, of death...

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