Mark Matthews v. City of Madison, Mississippi

KING, Justice,

specially concurring:

¶ 15. I agree that Matthews’s convictions should be affirmed; however, I write separately to address this Court’s critique of the Court of Appeals’s discussion of the presumption available to a defendant under the “Castle Doctrine,” as codified in Mississippi Code Section 97-3-15. Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-15(3) (Rev. 2008). The language in the Court of Appeals opinion that is criticized by the majority states: “The statute requires that the ‘person who uses defensive force shall be presumed to have reasonably feared imminent death or great bodily harm....’ No…