Driver of rental car found in constructive possession of drugs
Facts The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN) received reliable information that a possible drug transaction was to occur in Grenada, Mississippi. The informant was a police officer in Houston, Texas, who had a suspected drug distribution center in Houston under surveillance. During the surveillance, Frank Davis was seen carrying a dark colored duffel bag in […]
Sole occupant in truck found to be in constructive possession of drugs
Facts William Sidney Beard, Jr. made an agreement to purchase a 1990 International transport truck from Valley Volvo Truck Center in McAllen, Texas on February 19, 1999. Beard tendered a check for $18,500 and was given title to the truck. Beard then left Texas for Alabama. On February 21, at 4:06 a.m., Beard was pulled […]
Plain smell authorized search of truck
Facts Freddie Fultz was driving up I-55 through Pike County when he was pulled over by Highway Patrolman Elmo Townsend. Townsend was in Pike County on special detail to check for safety violations on eighteen wheeler trucks. He was working with another officer on a stop when Fultz passed them. Trooper Townsend said he heard […]
No reward attached to promise to inform the D.A. and the Judge of defendant’s cooperation
Facts S. S. asserted that beginning when she was thirteen years old Raymond Joseph Greer had sexual intercourse with her. S.S. contended that, thereafter, she and Greer engaged in sexual intercourse on numerous occasions over an approximately three year period. Testimony established that Greer was approximately thirty at the time the sexual intercourse occurred between […]
Subject not too intoxicated to provide statement in this case
Facts In 1988, John Pruitt confessed to the murder of Joan Easterling, a Pass Christian resident. Pruitt first confessed his involvement during a conversation (initiated by Pruitt) with Kenneth Bangs, a jailer with the Harrison County Sheriffs Department. According to Bangs, Pruitt then asked to speak with Detective Thomas Ruspoli of the Pass Christian Police […]
Circumstantial evidence
Facts On October 3, 1999, at about 4:00 a.m., Jeffrey Stewart and Starr Parker were parked in a field off White Street east of United States Highway 61 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Two men pulled in and parked next to them. Stewart and Parker heard the men arguing. Stewart heard a man say, “Deano, you know […]