Opinion ID: 1623368
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: was appellant's sentence disproportionate to the crime of sexual battery?

Text: The appellant contends that his sentence of thirty years in the State Penitentiary is disproportionate to the crime of sexual battery. Section 97-3-101 Miss. Code Ann. 97-3-101 (Supp. 1980) provides that every person who shall be convicted of sexual battery shall be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for a period of not more than thirty (30) years. The maximum sentence under that statute was imposed upon the appellant. He cites no authority to support his position, nor was any objection made upon the imposition of the sentence. In Contreras v. State, 445 So.2d 543, 546 (Miss. 1984), this Court said, as it has said many times: This Court has held many times that the trial judge will not be put in error nor will he be held to have abused his discretion in the sentence, if it is within the limits fixed by statute. The issue is resolved against the appellant. There being no reversible errors in the record, the judgment of the lower court is affirmed. CONVICTION OF SEXUAL BATTERY AND SENTENCE OF THIRTY (30) YEARS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AFFIRMED. HAWKINS and DAN M. LEE, P.JJ., and PRATHER, ROBERTSON, SULLIVAN, ANDERSON, PITTMAN and BLASS, JJ., concur.