Opinion ID: 1830890
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Heading: The Robbery Aggravating Circumstance

Text: ¶ 67. Manning also argues the insufficiency of the robbery aggravating circumstance, both for lack of evidence to support it and the unconstitutionality of using the underlying felony in a capital murder as an aggravating circumstance. As previously discussed in Issue I, the jury had ample evidence before it to find that Manning robbed Ms. Jimmerson and Ms. Jordan. Furthermore, as Manning concedes in his brief, his argument regarding the constitutionality of this aggravator has repeatedly been rejected by this Court, Evans v. State, 725 So.2d 613, 697-98, 1997 WL 562044, -91 (Miss.1997); Williams, 684 So.2d at 1188-91; Holly v. State, 671 So.2d 32, 39-40 (Miss.1996), and the process has been approved by the United States Supreme Court. Lowenfield v. Phelps, 484 U.S. 231, 241-46, 108 S.Ct. 546, 98 L.Ed.2d 568 (1988).