Williams v. State

MYERS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A Lincoln County jury convicted Jackie Williams of aggravated assault in the shooting of his friend, Dontrey Walker, during an argument. The circuit court sentenced Williams to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine and restitution for the victim’s medical bills. Williams’s term of imprisonment was ordered to be served consecutively to another sentence in an unrelated matter.

¶ 2. On appeal, Williams contends that the jury’s verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, which he…