Legal Opinion

Yucaitis v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided August 23, 2005No. 2003-KA-02505-COAPublished

1Opinion of the Court

IRVING, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Vincent Joe Yucaitis was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole. He has appealed and argues that the State failed to prove that property taken during the robbery was procured through the exhibition of a deadly weapon and that the trial court erred in granting a certain jury instruction. Yucaitis also contends that the jury’s verdict is against the sufficiency and weight of the evidence.

¶ 2. We find no reversible error, therefore, we affirm…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. McClain v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1993
  2. Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  3. Gray v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  4. Grubb v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  5. Crawford v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2000

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