LUTES v. STATE

No. 56268.

517 So.2d 541 (1987)

Richard LUTES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Clay Hamilton, Earl P. Jordan, Jr., Meridian, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


DAN M. LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Richard Lutes appeals his conviction of capital murder rendered by a jury in Lauderdale County Circuit Court for the shooting death of Meridian businessman, Larry Boggs Tiffee. After a bifurcated sentencing trial, the jury declined to invoke the death penalty and returned a verdict of life in prison. He appeals assigning three errors in the trial below:

1. The Court erred in overruling Defendant's motion for a...

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