Willie Albert Smith v. Lee Roy Black, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1990-08-24

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KING, Circuit Judge: Willie Albert Smith appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus from the judgment of conviction and death sentence entered against him on July 30, 1981, in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit of Hinds County, Mississippi. Smith was convicted of the murder of a convenience store clerk during the course of a ro…

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