Davis v. State

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¶ 1. Douvell Lamon Davis was convicted in the Hinds County Circuit Court of murder. He was sentenced to serve a term of life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Davis appeals and argues that the trial court erred (1) when it failed to require race and gender neutral reasons for the State's peremptory challenges; (2) when it denied a mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct; (3) when it denied Davis the right to cross-examine a witness…