JAMES L. ROBERTS, Jr., Justice, for the Court:
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
¶ 1. On July 11, 1973, the Circuit Court of Forrest County accepted Donald E. Smith's plea of guilty to a charge of murder and sentenced Smith to a term of life imprisonment. On June 20, 1997, Smith filed a petition for post-conviction relief in the Circuit Court of Sunflower County, asserting that he should have been sentenced to a term "reasonably less than life." Noting that...
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