Willie Jerome Manning v. State of Mississippi

RANDOLPH, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Willie Manning is appealing the trial court’s order denying him post-conviction relief. This appeal stems from Manning’s conviction of brutally murdering two elderly women in Starkville, Mississippi. The only witness to testify that he saw Manning entering the women’s apartment shortly before their bodies were discovered was Kevin Lucious, a convict serving two life sentences without parole in Missouri. No witness testified to seeing Manning leave the apartment. A more com-*304píete statement of the underlying facts can be found in Manning’s failed…