WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:
Billy Ray Sims was found guilty of rape by the Circuit Court of Forrest County, and sentenced to life imprisonment. From this adverse sentence Sims appeals making four (4) assignments of error.
On the evening of January 6, 1984, 79-year old Verda Booker was sitting in her living room at her home in Hattiesburg when she heard a knock at her back door and a voice saying, "it's me." Mrs. Booker thought the caller was a neighbor...
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