Eric Darrell Lott v. State of Mississippi

LEE, C.J., FOR THE COURT:

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 1. Eric Lott was indicted for the murder of Adrian Eley. 1 A jury in the Jefferson Davis County Circuit Court convicted Lott of manslaughter. Lott was sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The trial judge denied Lott's posttrial motions. Lott now appeals, asserting the following issues: (1) his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance; (2) one of the State's witnesses was not qualified to testify under Mississippi Rule of Evidence 702 ; and (3) the trial judge failed to be impartial by…