Pulphus v. State

782 So.2d 1220 (2001)

Willie PULPHUS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 2000-KA-00344-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 8, 2001.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 2001.

Edward Dudley Lancaster, Houston, Attorney for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Billy L. Gore, Attorney for Appellee.

EN BANC.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

McRAE, P.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. From a judgment convicting him of two counts of the sale of cocaine and sentencing him to imprisonment for thirty years, with twenty years suspended, Willie Pulphus appeals to this Court raising two issues concerning the circuit court's failure to…