Windham v. State

520 So.2d 123 (1987)

Otis Lee WINDHAM

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57229.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 12, 1987.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 1988.

Franklin M. Coleman, Meridian, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Otis Lee Windham appeals from his conviction in the circuit court of Kemper County of the murder of Albert Thurston Calvert and sentence to life imprisonment. Because the State was granted an instruction that the…