WEST v. STATE

No. DP-88.

553 So.2d 8 (1989)

Othie Lee WEST v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, En Banc.

October 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jr. and Robbin Wilson Cook, Stanfield Carmody & Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charlene R. Pierce, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is a rather bizarre capital murder case in which the prosecution sought to prove that the defendant shot and mortally wounded his female victim and then sexually assaulted her. In spite of a comprehensive defense discovery request and a prosecution promise that the testimony of its principal expert witness, a pathologist/psychiatrist, would be limited to that at defendant's first trial, the prosecution on the third...

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