Legal Opinion

Payne v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided March 25, 2008No. 2007-CA-00330-COAPublished

1Opinion of the Court

977 So.2d 1238 (2008)

Lawrence Kirby PAYNE, Appellant

v.

STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

No. 2007-CA-00330-COA.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

March 25, 2008.

Randolph Walker, attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by W. Glenn Watts, attorney for appellee.

Before KING, C.J., ROBERTS and CARLTON, JJ.

ROBERTS, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. On October 20, 1989, Lawrence Kirby Payne entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit capital murder as a habitual offender under Mississippi Code Annotated section 99-19-81 and was sentenced to twenty years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections.…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Brown v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  5. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2002

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