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373 So. 2d 613

Langston v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 25, 1979

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1979-07-25

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 2014

2 state decisions

Relies on 373 So. 2d 611 - Langston v. State

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Decided 1979-07-25

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¶1ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

PATTERSON, Chief Justice,

¶2for the Court:

¶3After conviction and while appeal was pending in this Court in Cause No. 51,401, Booker T. Langston v. State of Mississippi, 373 So.2d 611, Langston filed a petition for habeas corpus in the trial court alleging that he was effectively denied bond because the amount required for it was excessive. The petition, after hearing, was denied.

¶4The record reveals the petitioner to have been convicted several times previously. Under these facts we are unable to state that the trial court abused its discretion in the sum of bond since the probability of the petitioner absconding is obvious.

¶5More importantly, the issues on ha-beas corpus are now moot because Lang-ston’s appeal on the criminal charge has now been resolved against him.

¶6DISMISSED AS MOOT.

SMITH and ROBERTSON, P. JJ., and SUGG, WALKER, BROOM, LEE, BOWLING and COFER, JJ., concur.
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