Edmond v. State

312 So.2d 702 (1975)

Albert EDMOND

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 48509.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 19, 1975.

Howie, Montgomery & Montjoy, Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by John C. Underwood, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, SMITH and BROOM, JJ.

BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

Forcible rape was the offense for which appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County. He appeals from a sentence of life imprisonment and urges that the evidence was insufficient, that he acted upon an irresistible urge or…