Opinion ID: 1649620
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 22

Heading: Failure to request test of victim's fingernails.

Text: ¶ 27. Brown asserts that trial counsel was deficient for failing to request a crime laboratory analysis of the substance under the fingernails of the child victim. Brown does not, however, make any showing whatsoever that any substance was present under the fingernails of Evangela Boyd. Brown makes no reference to any document of record or testimony that would support the contention that there was something to be tested. In the absence of such a showing, it cannot be said that trial counsel's performance was deficient. Further, this Court has previously held that it is under no obligation to consider an assigned error without citation to authority. Brown v. State, 534 So.2d 1019, 1023 (Miss.1988). This issue is without merit.