Gordon v. State, 42486
| Decision Date | 18 March 1963 |
| Docket Number | No. 42486,42486 |
| Citation | 150 So.2d 851 |
| Parties | George A. GORDON, Alias Geo. 'Doc' Smith v. STATE of Mississippi. |
| Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lowndes County; John D. Greene, Jr., Judge.
Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Jackson, for appellant.
Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
The petition of Melvin L. Wulf, an alleged attorney, joined by R. Jess Brown, for George A. Gordon, alias Geo. 'Doc' Smith, for a stay of the execution of this sentence, scheduled for Friday, March 22, 1963, for the purpose of allowing a petition for a writ of certiorari to be filed in the United States Supreme Court to review the decision of this Court of February 4, 1963, 149 So.2d 475, has been duly considered.
It is the opinion of the Court and the members hereof that said petition should be denied.
Consequently it is ordered that such petition for stay, in its entirety, be, and the same is, hereby denied.
Petition denied.
ETHRIDGE and JONES, JJ., being out of the city, unavailable for consideration.
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Gordon v. State
...guilty but was unable to agree upon the punishment. This Court's opinion rejected both of appellant's contentions. 149 So.2d 475; see 150 So.2d 851 (denying On June 17, 1963 the Supreme Court of the United States denied Gordon's petition for a writ of certiorari. Gordon v. Miss., 375 U.S. 8......
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