Bobby Osbourne v. State of Mississippi

BEAM, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶1. Bobby Osbourne was convicted in the Tate County Circuit Court of aggravated assault, following a jury trial. Osbourne appeals from that conviction, claiming that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for numerous reasons: (1) for failing to move for a mistrial after discovering at trial that the handwritten notes taken by one of investigators, who had taken a statement from Osbourne, had not been provided to Osbourne's defense before trial, (2) for failing to investigate possible exculpatory evidence; (3) for failing to perfect Osbourne's direct…