Holliday v. State

504 So.2d 725 (1987)

Samuel Newton HOLLIDAY, III

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56415.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 11, 1987.

J.M. Ritchey, Cain, Cain & Ritchey, Canton, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Harold H. Brittain, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

Samuel Newton Holliday challenges his conviction for murder and sentence to life imprisonment following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Harrison County.

Holliday contends that the jury verdict is contrary to the weight of the…