Flowers v. State

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Raphael Flowers appeals his conviction of one count of statutory rape of a seven-year-old boy and sentence of thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Finding error, we reverse his conviction and sentence.

FACTS

¶ 2. Flowers was indicted on two counts of statutory rape 1 and two counts of sexual battery, 2 offenses that are alleged to have occurred in April 2006. Flowers, who was eighteen years old at the time of the offense, was charged with having sexual relations with four boys, all under the age of fourteen, in an abandoned…