Legal Opinion

Thompson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided June 20, 2013No. 2012-KA-00899-SCTPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Corey Thompson was convicted on two counts of armed robbery. The Circuit Court of Warren County, Honorable M. James Chaney, Jr., presiding, sentenced Thompson to two concurrent terms of twenty years, with eight years suspended and twelve years to serve. Thompson also was ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and court costs. Thompson now appeals his conviction. Finding no error, we affirm.

ISSUES

I. Whether the trial court violated Thompson’s right to assert his theory of the case when it failed to give the jury a self-defense instruction.

II. Whether…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Goff v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009
  2. Newell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
  3. Johnson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009
  4. Kirkwood v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2011

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Shunbrica Andrea Roby v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2016
  2. Melvin Potts v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  3. Timothy Allen Wilson v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2016
  4. Corey Lathan v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2014
  5. Brandon Jake Spiers v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2023

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