Davis v. State

BRIDGES, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case involves an appeal from a Washington County Circuit Court order denying post-conviction relief to Robert L. Davis. In his motion for post-conviction relief, Davis attacked his 1972 conviction and life imprisonment sentence for the crime of forcible rape, arguing that the judge was without authority to sentence him to life imprisonment absent a recommendation by a jury. The trial judge denied Davis’s motion finding Bullock v. Harpole, 233 Miss. 486, 102 So.2d 687 (1958), to be the controlling case law. On appeal, Davis challenges the denial of his…