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HOSFORD v. STATE

No. 57567.

525 So.2d 789 (1988)

Billy HOSFORD v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Hamilton, Pascagoula, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Billy Hosford appeals from his conviction of sexual battery of felonious sexual penetration of a child under twelve years of age, and sentence to thirty years in prison.

We reverse Hosford's conviction because of the erroneous admission of inflammatory irrelevant evidence and prosecutorial misconduct. Of necessity, we also address the responsibility of the trial judge to...

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