Smith v. State

ROBERTS, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. This is a corrected opinion. The mandate in the opinion has been corrected to change the sentence from life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) without possibility of parole to life in the custody of the MDOC. The remainder of the opinion unchanged.

¶ 2. A jury sitting before the Oktibbeha County Circuit Court found Thomas Terrell Smith guilty of murder. The circuit court sentenced Smith to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) -without the possibility of parole. Following an…