WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 57423.

522 So.2d 201 (1988)

James WILLIAMS, Jr. v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim W. Rose, Gulfport, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Donald G. Barlow, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

On September 26, 1984, James Williams, Jr., was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Mississippi. He assigns the following as error:

I. & II. Did the "voucher rule", coupled with the rule preventing comment on the State's failure to call a witness, prevent James Williams, Jr. from receiving a fair trial? III. Should the court have...

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