Dickerson v. State

COLEMAN, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. The Circuit Court of Copiah County convicted David Dickerson of capital murder, arson, and armed robbery. The jury sentenced him to death for the capital murder conviction; he was sentenced to twenty years for arson and forty years for armed robbery, to run consecutively. Dickerson appeals his convictions and death sentence. Finding no error, we affirm.

Facts and Procedural History

¶2. David Dickerson and Paula Her-, rington Hamilton were in a relationship in the mid-1990s, and they had a child, Courtney Dickersom When the relationship ended, Dickerson had…