Johnson v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. A jury seated in the Circuit Court of Jackson County returned a guilty verdict against John Johnson for the depraved-heart murder of Keith Franklin on March 5, 2008. Johnson was sentenced to life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Aggrieved, Johnson appeals and raises three issues. It appears that Johnson’s intent is to attack the legal sufficiency as well as the weight of the evidence. Therefore, we have slightly reordered and combined the issues. They are: (1) whether there was insufficient evidence to support a verdict of…