GRAVES v. STATE

No. 56354.

492 So.2d 562 (1986)

Jerry Donnell GRAVES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Charles May, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Harold H. Brittain, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

From a conviction of murder and a sentence of life imprisonment as an habitual offender under Mississippi Code Annotated § 99-19-83 (Supp. 1985), on November 29, 1984, JERRY DONNELL GRAVES (Graves) appeals, assigning as error:

I. The trial court erred in overruling the defendant's motion for mistrial on the grounds that the State unnecessarily introduced evidence of an unconnected crime;

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