Reed v. State

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. On October 25, 2006, Roderick Reed was convicted in the Circuit Court of Tuni-ca County of the sexual battery of a seven-year-old minor child and sentenced to twenty-five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Aggrieved, he now appeals, asserting that:(1) the circuit court erred in failing to sustain his motion for a directed verdict;(2) the circuit court erred in failing to give a peremptory jury instruction; (3) the circuit court erred in denying his motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, his motion…