Coates v. State

495 So.2d 464 (1986)

Earl Junior COATES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 55,784.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 24, 1986.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1986.

Michael R. Farrow, Columbus, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I

Factually this appeal presents the disquieting story of an ongoing sexual relationship between a 36 year old man and his young teenage stepdaughter. Those interested in the development of the criminal procedural…