Gore v. State

RANDOLPH, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. John T. Gore was indicted for “gratifying his lust or indulging his depraved licentious sexual desires,” on May 11, 2007, by “intentionally handling], touch[ing] or rub[bing] with his hands or any part of his body or any member thereof,” his twenty-one-month-old granddaughter, M.G.1 From his subsequent conviction and sentence in the Circuit Court of Rankin County, Mississippi, Gore appeals regarding evidentia-ry rulings of the circuit court and the sufficiency of the evidence.

FACTS

¶ 2. Just weeks prior to the May 11, 2007, occurrence, Thomas Daniel Gore…