Cunningham v. State

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¶ 1. Joe T. Cunningham was convicted of burglary of a dwelling. He was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with ten years suspended, leaving ten years to be served. Aggrieved by his conviction, Cunningham has appealed and has raised the following issues that we cite verbatim:

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The trial court erred by failing to declare a mistrial following testimony that Joe Cunningham had stolen a bicycle from Howard…