Burkett v. State

Full title: Nathaniel BURKETT v. STATE of Mississippi

Court: Supreme Court of Mississippi

Date published: Mar 19, 1986

484 So. 2d 1046 (Miss. 1986)

Opinion

No. 55422.

March 19, 1986.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Pearl River County; R.I. Prichard, III, J..

Nova A. Carroll, Stewart, Burks, Pace Carroll, Picayune, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and SULLIVAN, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Nathaniel Burkett was convicted, in the Circuit Court of Pearl River County, of manslaughter and sentenced to serve twenty (20) years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Finding no merit under any error assigned on appeal, we affirm the conviction and sentence. See Morea v. State, 329 So.2d 527 (Miss. 1976); Jordan v. State, 474 So.2d 622 (Miss. 1985); Willis v. State, 475 So.2d 163 (Miss. 1985); Gibson v. State, 475 So.2d 824 (Miss. 1985); Parrott v. State, 475 So.2d 167 (Miss. 1985); Smith v. State, 484 So.2d 364 (1986).

AFFIRMED.

PATTERSON, C.J., WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P.JJ., and HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ., concur.