YATES v. STATE

No. 92-KA-00252-SCT.

685 So.2d 715 (1996)

Robert Allen YATES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul G. Swartzfager, Jr., Swartzfager & Swartzfager, Laurel, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jackson, Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.


MILLS, Justice, for the Court.

Robert Allen Yates (Yates) appeals to this Court his March 12, 1992 conviction in the Jones County Circuit Court for felonious child abuse (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-39). The lower court sentenced Yates to serve ten (10) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with the last three years suspended. Yates filed post-trial motions which were denied by the lower court. Yates, aggrieved by the jury's verdict and...

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