Smith v. State

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On March 22, 2011, Prentiss Smith was indicted by a Bolivar County grand jury for one count of depraved-heart murder and one count of aggravated assault. Smith was convicted of both counts. Thereafter, he filed a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), which was denied. Smith was then sentenced to serve life imprisonment for the murder conviction and twenty years for the aggravated-assault conviction, with the sentences to run consecutively to each other, *121all in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Smith now appeals,…