Victory v. State

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Jermell Victory was convicted in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County of the murder of Darron Sykes and of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The circuit court sentenced Victory, respectively, to life and ten years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with the sentences to run consecutively. Victory raises one issue on appeal: “Whether the trial court erred in refusing to grant appellant Jermell Victory’s proposed jury instruction on eyewitness identification where said instruction embodied his theory of the case.” We…