Hickombottom v. State

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Adams County wherein the defendant, Jewel Hickombottom was convicted of rape and sentenced to serve a term of forty years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Feeling aggrieved, Hickombottom perfects this appeal.

The appellant makes the following assignments of error:

I

THE COURT ERRED IN OVERRULING APPELLANT'S MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENT

There is no merit to this assignment of error because the indictment tracks Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-65 (Supp. 1981) which deals with the crime of rape.

We have said on numerous occasions that…