Stewart v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Roy L. Stewart was convicted on one count of burglary by a jury in the Washington County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to serve six years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with four years to serve and two years of post-release supervision (PRS). Stewart now appeals his conviction and sentence.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. During the early morning hours on September 1, 2010, a Leland police officer discovered that Buster’s Liquor Store in Leland, Mississippi, had been broken into at some point that morning. He observed that…