BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
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Thomas Earl Settles was convicted in the Circuit Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi, of armed robbery with the use of a deadly weapon. He was sentenced by the jury to serve a term of life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He appeals to this court raising two issues: (1) whether the failure of the state's definitional armed robbery instruction to require the jury to find that the victim was placed...
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