Quincy Clayton v. State of Mississippi

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A jury in the Jones County Circuit Court convicted Quincy Clayton of manslaughter for the death of Clayton’s wife, Alice Wash Clayton. The circuit court sentenced Clayton to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) for the manslaughter conviction and five years for the firearm sentence enhancement pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-37-37(1) (Rev.2014), to run consecutively to his manslaughter sentence. Clayton’s post-trial motions were denied, and he appealed, asking this Court to determine whether the…