State v. Turner

OPINION

SCOTT, Judge.

James Howard Turner was convicted of one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of aggravated kidnapping. He received a sentence of life imprisonment for the first degree murder and forty years imprisonment for each count of aggravated kidnapping. The trial judge overruled each ground of the motion for a new trial except one. After a full evidentiary hearing the trial judge held that Mr. Turner received ineffective assistance of counsel and granted the motion for a new trial. The state appealed to this Court and the judgment was affirmed. State v. James Howard…