JENKINS v. STATE

No. 57283.

507 So.2d 89 (1987)

Douglas Jerome JENKINS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jr., Stanfield, Carmody & Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

On this appeal we are asked to consider and apply the relevancy provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence which became effective on January 1, 1986. In the context of a prosecution for attempted kidnapping of a grocery store patron as he was entering his car in the parking area, the trial judge overruled timely objection to evidence of the defendant's planned but foiled robbery of the grocery store. Because this...

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