Keys v. State

KING, C.J., for the court.

¶ 1. Desmond Keys was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), and if released before the full sentence is served, he was ordered to complete the Eighteenth District Circuit Court’s Community Service Program. On appeal, Keys raises the following assignments of error: (1) the trial court committed reversible error by failing to instruct the jury on Keys’s theory of the case, and (2) the trial court erred in permitting Dr. Steven Hayne to testify in the area of terminal ballistics and to testify…