Frank Thomas Friday v. State of Mississippi

BARNES, J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. A DeSoto County jury found Frank Friday guilty of three counts of sexual battery and two counts of fondling of Betty, 1 who, at the time of the crime, was his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. The trial judge sentenced Friday to twenty years with five years suspended for Count III (sexual battery), ten years for Count IV (fondling), ten years for Count V (fondling), twenty years with five suspended for Count VI (sexual battery), and twenty years with five suspended for Count VII (sexual battery) in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, followed by…