James Howard Wordlaw v. State of Mississippi

¶ 17. I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion, and I would find any error to be harmless consistent with the holdings in Jones v. State, 164 So.3d 1009, 1014 (¶ 12) (Miss. Ct. App. 2013),1 and Rooks v. State, 529 So.2d 546, 556 (Miss. 1988).

¶ 18. In Jones, this Court found no prejudice or plain error where the trial court gave a jury instruction for sexual battery of a child under the age of fourteen years that failed to include that the defendant was twenty-four or more months older than the child. Jones, 164 So.3d at 1014 (¶ 13). In so finding, this Court explained that the jury…