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NORRIS v. STATE

No. 56096.

490 So.2d 839 (1986)

Curtis NORRIS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurel G. Weir, Thomas L. Booker, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by DeWitt Allred, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, P.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Curtis Norris was convicted of aggravated assault for knowingly causing bodily injury to Terry Winstead by stabbing him with a knife. Norris was sentenced to fifteen (15) years in the Department of Corrections by the Circuit Court of Neshoba County, Mississippi.

Norris, a veteran of the Vietnam war, suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome. On the night of May 5, 1984, while Norris, a patient at the Veterans Hospital, was...

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