Dederico Scott Wilson a/k/a Dederico Wilson a/k/a Dedrico Wilson v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The court affirmed Wilson’s first-degree murder conviction and life sentence. It held that the self-defense instruction was procedurally barred because Wilson objected on a different ground at trial and, in any event, correctly stated the law; it likewise upheld the malice-inference instruction. Viewing the evidence in the prosecution’s favor, the court concluded that the delayed shots after Wilson had disarmed Davis supported a finding of deliberate design rather than self-defense or imperfect self-defense.