Sims v. State

512 So.2d 1256 (1987)

Billy Ray SIMS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56965.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 19, 1987.

Jefferson B. Stewart, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

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

WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Billy Ray Sims was found guilty of rape by the Circuit Court of Forrest County, and sentenced to life imprisonment. From this adverse sentence Sims appeals making four (4) assignments of error.

On the evening of January 6, 1984, 79-year old Verda…