Jenkins v. State

507 So.2d 89 (1987)

Douglas Jerome JENKINS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57283.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 29, 1987.

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jr., Stanfield, Carmody & Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

On this appeal we are asked to consider and apply the relevancy provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence which became effective on January 1, 1986. In the context of a prosecution for attempted kidnapping of a grocery store patron as he was entering his car…