Markeith D. Fleming v. State of Mississippi

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This appeal proceeds from a judgment of conviction for murder and aggravated assault entered against Markeith Fleming following a jury trial in the Attala County Circuit Court on September 16-17, 2013. The trial court sentenced Fleming to life imprisonment on the charge of murder and ordered him to serve a twenty-year sentence for aggravated assault, with the sentences to run consecutively. The trial court denied Fleming’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) or, in' the alternative, a new trial. Fleming now appeals, arguing that (1) the…