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PORTER v. STATE

No. 49564.

343 So.2d 1236 (1977)

Henry Lewis PORTER v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 30, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Reeves, McComb, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Karen Gilfoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before GILLESPIE, SMITH and WALKER, JJ., and BROOME, Commissioner.

RUFUS BROOME, Commissioner, for the Court:1

The appellant was convicted of the crime forcible rape in Pike County, sentenced to serve the remainder of his natural life in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed to this Court, assigning as error that the verdict of the jury was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, that the state withheld evidence from the defendant which would have been exculpatory, in violation of the orders...

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