DAVIS v. STATE

No. 50978.

367 So.2d 445 (1979)

Charles Earl DAVIS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar P. LaBarre, Vicksburg, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Calvin Coolidge Williams, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before SMITH, SUGG and COFER, JJ.


SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

In this case, Charles Earl Davis was tried in the Circuit Court of Warren County upon an indictment charging him with having committed the "crime against nature" in that he had engaged in unnatural sexual intercourse with a female child. Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-29-59 (1972). He was convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. At the time of the trial, the victim was a female child, eleven years of age...

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