Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 1, 2010No. 2008-KA-02129-SCTPublishedCited by 40 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Nickey Williams was convicted of two counts of sexual battery, the first against his daughter, Jane, and the second against his daughter, Ann.1 At the time of the offenses, Jane was four years old and Ann was less than a year old. Williams was sentenced to thirty years’ incarceration on the first count and twenty years’ incarceration on the second count with ten years suspended. The trial court ordered that those sentences run consecutively.

¶ 2. Finding that there was insufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict for sexual battery of the younger…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Idaho v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  3. Bush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
  4. Herring v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  5. May v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984

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3Cited by40 opinions

  1. Galloway v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013
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  5. Parvin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013

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