Cooper v. State

BRIDGES, P.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Charged with murdering Kenneth Shumaker, Jonathan Cooper went before the Washington County Circuit Court. After a two-day trial, the jury found Cooper guilty of manslaughter. The circuit court sentenced Cooper to a twenty-year *667term in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Cooper appeals and raises the following issues:

I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN OVERRULING [COOPER’S] OBJECTION TO THE STATE’S RECALLING A WITNESS AGAINST HIM AFTER THIS WITNESS HAD BEEN EXAMINED BY THE STATE AND CROSS-EXAMINED. THIS RECALL OF THE WITNESS WAS THE DAY AFTER THE…