Legal Opinion

James Robert Rowsey v. State of Mississippi

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 3, 2015No. 2014-KA-00501-SCTPublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On February 25, 2014, James Row-sey was convicted of aggravated assault in the Circuit Court of Greene County for throwing scalding water on a fellow inmate at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution. Rowsey was sentenced to serve ten years of incarceration to run consecutively to the life sentence he already was serving for murder. Finding no error, we affirm Rowsets conviction and - sentence.

STATEMENT OF • FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. On January 28, 2010, James Rowsey was imprisoned at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Doggett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. Morris v. SlappySupreme Court of the United States · 1983

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3Cited by39 opinions

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  3. George Lee Parks v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
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  5. Richard Rosebur v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017

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