Tapper v. State

*97CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Randy Lamar Tapper was convicted by a Jackson County Circuit Court jury on two counts of sexual battery and five counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes. Tapper was sentenced to life imprisonment on each count of sexual battery and to fifteen years on each count of touching of a child for lustful purposes, with all sentences to run consecutively. After the trial judge denied his Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdicts, or in the Alternative, a New Trial, Tapper perfected this appeal, alleging errors at the trial-court level.…