Goodin v. State

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¶ 1. James Robert Goodin was convicted of rape and sexual battery in the Circuit Court of Lee County. He was sentenced to serve life imprisonment for rape and thirty years for sexual battery, with both sentences to run concurrently, in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, and to pay a fine in the amount of $5,000 and court costs. Goodin's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, a new trial was denied by the…