Flowers v. State

IRVING, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In June 2006, a Leflore County grand jury indicted Raphael Flowers on two counts of statutory rape and two counts of sexual battery. Flowers’s first trial ended in a mistrial due to misconduct by the assistant district attorney. Flowers was tried again in the Leflore County Circuit Court for two counts of statutory rape and two counts of sexual battery. The circuit court granted a mistrial on three of the counts after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, but Flowers was convicted on one count of statutory rape. Flowers appealed his conviction, and…