Sanders v. State

I

In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 28, 1980, well before dawn, a man broke into and entered the trailer home of Mrs. J.B. Ross near the Sunflower River in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The next day Percy Lee Sanders, defendant below and appellant here, was arrested and formally charged with this crime.

On July 8, 1981, Sanders was charged with the armed burglary of an inhabited dwelling at nightime in an indictment returned by the Coahoma County Grand Jury. Miss. Code Ann. § 97-17-23 (1972). On July 30, 1981, this case was called for trial in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County.…