CULBERSON v. STATE

No. 90-KA-0651.

612 So.2d 342 (1992)

Alvin CULBERSON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine V. Kilgore, Batesville, Robert B. Wiygul, New Orleans, LA, for appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen. and Charlene R. Pierce, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.


McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

Presently before the Court is the state's oldest death-row inmate, Alvin Culberson. Here he challenges the trial court's application of the three-year period of limitations in our Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-1, et seq., (Supp. 1991) to his request to set aside a 1971 conviction which was used as an aggravating factor justifying the imposition of the death penalty. We are asked to...

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