Yankton v. State

LEE, P.J.,

for the Court:

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 1. Lavon 1 Yankton was convicted by a jury in the Forrest County Circuit Court of aggravated domestic violence. The trial court sentenced Yankton to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Yankton filed post-trial motions, which were subsequently denied. Yankton now appeals, asserting that the trial court erred in allowing evidence of prior bad acts. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶2. On September 26, 2007, Cynthia Yankton was at the apartment she shared with her husband, Yankton, and children in…