Joshua Archie a/k/a Joshua Leon Archie v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Archie’s conspiracy and capital-murder convictions. It held that Archie was entitled to an alibi instruction because he testified that he was elsewhere, but any instructional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in light of the instructions given and the strong evidence placing him at the crime. The court also upheld the reasonable-doubt instruction ruling, admission of the photograph, verdicts against the weight-of-the-evidence challenge, and rejection of the ineffective-assistance claims.