Court of Appeals of Mississippi December 6, 2011, No. 2010-CP-01488-COA (Payton v. State)

GRIFFIS, P.J.,

for the court:

¶ 1. In 1970, Freddie Payton was convicted of the forcible rape of an eleven-year-old child, a- crime committed when Payton was fifteen years of age. Payton pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Payton was paroled in 1984. But he was rearrested in 1986, and his parole was revoked. Payton was then recommitted to custody.

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