396 So. 2d 629 - Yates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Millwood v. State · Wilson v. State · Bell v. State · 383 So. 2d 495 - Jordan v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The Court in interpreting Section 99-19-83 finds that the sentencing of this Defendant to two sentences, even though the occurrences were separate incidences and the charges were separately brought, that he has not served separate terms of one year or more on each of these charges, as concurrent sentences would have been served simultaneously and not separate. Therefore, the Court finds that this Defendant cannot be sentenced under Section 99-19-83. However, the Court finds from the cases of the Mississippi Supreme Court that this Defendant should be sentenced under Section 99-19-81 as he was properly noticed in the indictment that the State was charging him as a habitual offender... . And that the serving of these sentences concurrently still meets the criteria of the statute and that this Court is required by the proof offered herein to sentence this Defendant under § 99-19-81.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case at issue sentencing was under § 99-19-83 and cannot be upheld because the record clearly reveals that the defendant had not "served separate" terms as required by the statute. We conclude on the state of this record that the cause should be remanded for proper sentence under § 99-19-81, supra, not inconsistent with this opinion. Bell v. State, 355 So.2d 1106 (Miss. 1978). [ 396 So.2d at 631 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“You have found the Defendant guilty of the crime of capital murder. You must now decide whether the Defendant will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment for the Capital Murder of Henry Fulton. In reaching your decision, you may objectively consider the detailed circumstances of the offense for which the defendant was convicted, and the character and the record of the Defendant himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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