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488 So. 2d 800

Docket No. 56256.

Hawkins v. State

James HAWKINS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 21, 1986.

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1986-05-21

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1992

14 state decisions

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

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Decided 1986-05-21

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¶1Richard B. Lewis, Maynard, Bradley, Dees & Lewis, Clarksdale, for appellant.

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

¶3Before WALKER, P.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

¶4SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court.

¶5James Hawkins was convicted in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County of murder *801 and sentenced to serve life imprisonment 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,475 So.2d 167 (Miss. 1985); Smith v. State,484 So.2d 364 (Miss. 1986), and Burkett v. State,484 So.2d 1046 (Miss. 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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