Williams v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Jackson Williams, Jr., appeals his convictions in the Circuit Court of Tunica County of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. In June 2008 Williams stabbed Edward Walls with a pocket knife. There was no dispute that the stabbing occurred and that Williams was a convicted felon; however, the facts leading up to the stabbing were contested at trial. Williams claimed that Walls was assaulting him, and he was defending himself when he stabbed Walls. However, Walls’s version of events was that he was simply speaking with Williams when…