Evans v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On March 12, 2009, Dante Lamar Evans was convicted of the murder of his father, Darold Evans, and was sentenced as an adult to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. The Court of Appeals affirmed Dante’s conviction and sentence. Evans v. State, 109 So.3d 1056, 1058-59 (Miss.Ct.App.2011), reh’g denied (Sept. 6, 2011). Dante petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari concerning six issues: (1) whether the trial court erroneously refused to permit the jury to consider Dante’s theory of imperfect self-defense; (2) whether the trial…