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BECKWITH v. STATE

No. 91-IA-1207.

615 So.2d 1134 (1992)

Byron De La BECKWITH v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrida Coxwell, Stanfield Carmody & Coxwell, Jim Kitchens, Kitchens & Ellis, Jackson, for appellant.

Edward J. Peters, Hinds County Dist. Atty., Bobby B. DeLaughter, Asst. Dist. Atty., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Medgar Evers, a black civil rights activist and leader in the turbulent 1950s-1960s civil rights struggles, was murdered at his home in Jackson June 12, 1963. Byron De La Beckwith, a vocal pro-segregationist and white supremacist in this State, was arrested June 23 and indicted for Evers' murder at the July, 1963, term of the grand jury of Hinds County. He stood trial in February, 1964, and following a hung jury, a mistrial...

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