Jennings v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. After being convicted by a Lowndes County Circuit Court jury for statutory rape and resisting' arrest and being sentenced to fifteen years for statutory rape, with ten years to serve and five years suspended, as well as six months for resisting arrest, Toney Jennings appealed his statutory-rape conviction. The Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. We granted Jennings’s petition for certiorari to determine whether the trial court erred in admitting Jennings’s arguably involuntary statement to police into evidence.

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