Taylor v. State

¶ 28. I respectfully dissent. In this Court’s most recent pronouncement on crimes that are per se violent under Mississippi Code Section 99-19-83, we held that “we will not place a ‘violent crime’ label on a crime where there was no proof of a violent act, unless the statute itself— or some other provision of law (such as the definitions within the chapter that include the statute) — clearly and unambiguously requires us to do so.” Brown v. State, 102 So.3d 1087, 1089 (Miss.2012). Taylor’s crime of “sexual intercourse with a child underage” is not defined by any statute identified by the…