Williams v. State

IRVING, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. A Lafayette County jury found David Jackson Williams guilty of murder. Thereafter, the Lafayette County Circuit Court sentenced Williams to life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Feeling aggrieved, Williams appeals and asserts that the circuit court erred when it: (1) refused his request for an assisted-suicide instruction; (2) allowed a priest to claim the priest-penitent privilege regarding conversations that the priest had had with the victim; (3) allowed Dr. Steven Hayne to testify as an expert in the field of forensic pathology;…