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FOSTER v. STATE

No. DP-59.

508 So.2d 1111 (1987)

James Henry FOSTER v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaines S. Dyer, Dyer, Dyer, Dyer & Jones, Greenville, for appellant.

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

Before En Banc.

WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

James Henry Foster was charged by indictment with the capital murder of Ruby Jean Elliott. In a bifurcated trial in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County, he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. From that conviction he appeals, assigning seven (7) errors. Because the trial court improperly limited Foster's cross-examination of the State's key witness, we reverse the conviction and...

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