McQuarter v. State

Charles McQuarter was convicted of grand larceny, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-17-41 (1972), and sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, four (4) years suspended and one (1) year to serve. Aggrieved, he appeals to this Court through substituted counsel on the following issues:

I. Whether appellant was denied effective assistance of counsel by his prior counsel's failure to conduct professionally reasonable pretrial and background investigations into obvious and highly relevant exculpatory evidence, facts and available character witnesses and other omissions;