Correy James Dartez v. State of Mississippi

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Correy James Dartez was found guilty of murder by a Harrison County jury and sentenced to life in prison in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The trial court denied Dar-tez’s post-trial motion for a new trial or judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Dartez timely appeals his conviction to this Court, claiming his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to raise an insanity defense and for not challenging the introduction into evidence of Dartez’s confession to the police that he had killed his wife Victoria Dartez…