Dear v. State

966 So.2d 218 (2007)

Sandra D. DEAR, Appellant

v.

STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

No. 2006-KA-01560-COA.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

October 9, 2007.

Edmund J. Phillips, Jr., attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Stephanie Breland Wood, attorney for appellee.

Before MYERS, P.J., BARNES and ROBERTS, JJ.

MYERS, P.J., for the Court.

¶ 1. Sandra D. Dear was convicted of the sale of a controlled substance, namely cocaine, in the Leake County Circuit Court. During sentencing, Dear was ordered to serve a term of twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.…