Williams v. State

CARLTON, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. In January 2007, a Lincoln County grand jury indicted Julian Williams for murder. Williams was convicted in the Lincoln County Circuit Court of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Aggrieved, Williams now appeals his conviction and sentence, raising one issue for our review.

FACTS

¶ 2. In the early morning hours of July 15, 2006, officers from the Lincoln County Sheriffs Department responded to a call at a trailer park outside of Brookhaven, Mississippi. They received a report that a woman, Rhonda…