Legal Opinion
Rickey Portis v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 14, 2018No. 2016–KA–00713–SCTPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. Rickey Portis was convicted of two counts of sexual battery based on allegations that he repeatedly abused his then eight- and nine-year-old stepdaughters, Amy and Mary Collins. The trial court sentenced him to two life sentences, to run consecutively. Portis appeals his convictions, *461 arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to grant a continuance, that the trial court erred by failing to allow him to introduce a prior inconsistent statement of a prosecution witness, that the verdict is not supported by sufficient evidence, that the verdict is against…
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