Holding a baseball bat and refusing to leave resulted in disorderly conduct conviction
Facts Erwin J. Smith is the owner of an arcade in Picayune, Mississippi. In 1993, Smith learned of a disturbance in his adjoining parking lot, and upon discovering that a small crowd had gathered there, he exited his arcade building and walked onto his lot carrying a baseball bat. Two police officers from the City […]
HGN can be used to prove probable cause to arrest and administer the intoxilyzer or blood test
Facts In 1993, Eugene Young and his brother spent the day fishing and swimming at a lake in Hammond, Louisiana. Between 12:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., the two brothers testified to drinking between six and eight twelve ounce beers each. That evening, Young and his brother began driving north on I-55 heading to Young’s home […]
Presence in the car is not enough for constructive possession
Facts Lillian Johnson was working as a cashier at the Amoco station on Highway 613 in Jackson County in 1991. While she was working, Imo Kibwe Jawara and Robert Lewis Jones were riding through Jackson County in Jawara’s car on their way from New Orleans back to their homes in Georgia. About 9:00 p.m. the men […]
Subjects traveling in a convoy convicted of constructive possession for drugs found in another car
Facts In 1989, law enforcement officers, specifically officer Revere Christopher, received information from a confidential informant that some individuals from Louisiana desired to sell a quantity of cocaine. The narcotics task force set up the arrest of defendants Alvin Jackson and Larry Jackson, with the participation of Boise Moore, the confidential informant. Officer Christopher was […]
Clothing seized at time of arrest under plain view and/or search incident to arrest
Facts In 1993, five year old Yoichi Boyd went down the road to her grandmother’s house to wait for the school bus. Upon entering the house, she discovered the bodies of her aunt and grandmother, Verline and Betty Boyd. When the school bus arrived, she told the bus driver what she had found. The bus […]
confession of a 16 year old for murder was proper
Facts In 1991, Junior Dean Franks was found lying in the street in Tupelo. Tupelo Police Officer Preston Irving discovered that Franks had been shot in the neck. Franks was transported to the hospital but later died as a result of his gunshot injury. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Daryl Leonard Morgan was being held in the Lee […]