Coon v. Ledbetter

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1986-01-16

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PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: I When fighting led to shooting in a Mississippi tavern, Billy Dan Coon and his friend Buddy Nelson departed the scene. Coon said later that a man named Tanner had threatened him with a knife, stated that he knew where Coon lived, and warned that he would get him later. As Coon and Nelson drove away, apparently with dispatch, they hit another car, but quickly lef…

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