Sims v. State

IRVING, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A Yazoo County jury convicted Julian Sims of gratification of lust, kidnapping, statutory rape, and sexual battery. The circuit court sentenced Sims as a habitual offender to fifteen years for the gratification-of-lust conviction, thirty years for the kidnapping conviction, thirty years for the statutory-rape conviction, and thirty years for the sexual-battery conviction, with all sentences to run concurrently and to be served in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Sims filed a motion for a directed verdict, a motion for a judgment…