White v. State

495 So.2d 1346 (1986)

Robert Lee WHITE, Jr.

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56565.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 8, 1986.

Jefferson B. Stewart, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Jack B. Lacy, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Robert Lee White, Jr., was convicted of forcible rape in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, and sentenced to life in the custody of the Department of Corrections. He appeals, assigning as error:

I. The trial court erred in overruling…