354 So. 2d 1095
Decided January 25, 1978
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1978-01-25
Relies on 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State
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Decided 1978-01-25
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2011
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
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¶1for the Court:
¶2Arthur Lee Stevenson was convicted of the capital murder of a police officer under the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-19(2)(a) (Supp.1974), and was sentenced to death. Since the case was tried before Jackson v. State, 337 So.2d 1242 (Miss.1976), his conviction and sentence must be reversed and the cause retried in accordance with the opinion in Jackson v. State, supra.
¶3REVERSED AND REMANDED.