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484 So. 2d 1046

Docket No. 55422.

Burkett v. State

Nathaniel BURKETT v. STATE of Mississippi.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 19, 1986.

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1986-03-19

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1998

21 state decisions

Relies on 329 So. 2d 527 - Morea v. State · Smith v. State · Brisker v. State

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Decided 1986-03-19

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¶1Nova A. Carroll, Stewart, Burks, Pace & Carroll, Picayune, for appellant.

¶2Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

¶3Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and SULLIVAN, JJ.

¶4SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

¶5Nathaniel Burkett was convicted, in the Circuit Court of Pearl River County, of manslaughter and sentenced to serve twenty (20) years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

¶6Finding no merit under any error assigned on appeal, we affirm the conviction and sentence. See Morea v. State,329 So.2d 527 (Miss. 1976); Jordan v. State,474 So.2d 622 (Miss. 1985); Willis v. State,475 So.2d 163 (Miss. 1985); Gibson v. State,475 So.2d 824 (Miss. 1985); Parrott v. State,*1047475 So.2d 167 (Miss. 1985); Smith v. State,484 So.2d 364 (1986).

¶7AFFIRMED.

¶8PATTERSON, C.J., WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P.JJ., and HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ., concur.

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