LUSTER v. STATE

No. 57179.

515 So.2d 1177 (1987)

James Earl LUSTER v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 25, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Minor, Minor & Barnes, Oxford, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.,


ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:

Appellant James Earl Luster and Verdell Davis were indicted and jointly tried on a charge of murder in the Circuit Court of Alcorn County. Davis was found innocent by the jury, but the appellant was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.

Appellant brings this appeal alleging Miranda violations, failure to establish the corpus delicti, insufficiency of evidence and improper presence...

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