Bateman v. State

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Clayton Paul Bateman was convicted in the Harrison County Circuit Court of two counts of sexual battery and two counts of touching a child for lustful purposes. He was sentenced to a total of thirty years’ imprisonment. Bateman now appeals his conviction. Finding no reversible error, we affirm Bateman’s convictions and sentences.

FACTS & PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. In 2009, Clayton Paul Bateman and Melissa Anglada lived together in a mobile home in Saucier, Mississippi, with their four children. Bateman and Anglada had dated for roughly a decade, but never…