Johnson v. State

CARLTON, J., FOR THE COURT:

*598¶ 1. A Lafayette County jury convicted Shauntez Johnson of aggravated assault, and the trial court sentenced him to a term of twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with four years suspended, followed by four years' postrelease supervision.1 Johnson filed a motion for a new trial or, in the alternative, a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV). The trial court denied Johnson's posttrial motion.

¶ 2. Johnson now appeals, arguing that he was denied a fair trial due to an alleged error in a jury instruction. Finding no…