WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 56975.

512 So.2d 666 (1987)

Ronald WILLIAMS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Minor F. Buchanan, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Henry C. Clay, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This burglary case arises out of an after midnight victimization of one of life's more helpless creatures — a thirty-year-old mentally retarded female who lived somewhat alone in a Jackson apartment. Questions are presented regarding the weight of the evidence, the nature and extent of the prosecution's obligation to prove criminal intent attendant upon the breaking and entering and prosecutorial misconduct. Although...

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