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DIXON v. STATE

No. 57077.

513 So.2d 951 (1987)

Samuel Wesley DIXON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Brooks and James E. Smith, Jr., Smith & Smith, Carthage, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Pat Flynn and DeWitt Allred, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and ANDERSON, JJ.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Samuel Wesley Dixon has appealed from his conviction in the circuit court of Leake County of kidnapping Ruby Dean Griffin and sentence to serve 30 years.

We address only one issue on this appeal, Dixon's constitutional double jeopardy right. Having been previously acquitted in the same court of the crime of murder of Ruby Dean Griffin while in the commission of rape on the same night in the same series of acts upon...

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