GARRETT v. STATE

No. 07-KA-58620.

549 So.2d 1325 (1989)

Billy Dean GARRETT v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger F. Wicker, Sparks Wicker & Colburn, Tupelo, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., elected Supreme Court Justice January 3, 1989, Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., John R. Henry, Jr., Sp. Ass't. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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


PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

Billy Dean Garrett was indicted for murder, but convicted of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi. He was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. From that conviction and sentence Garrett appeals, assigning as error the following:

(1) The lower court erred in failing to grant appellant's motion for a new trial, upon discovery that the jury had...

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