Legal Opinion
Sweat v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided October 6, 2005No. 2003-CT-00909-SCTPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
912 So.2d 458 (2005)
Joe Earl SWEAT
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 2003-CT-00909-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
October 6, 2005.
Joe Earl Sweat, pro se.
Office of the Attorney General by W. Glenn Watts, attorney for appellee.
EN BANC.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI
COBB, Presiding Justice, for the Court.
¶ 1. On certiorari, we review the Court of Appeals' judgment that affirmed in part the trial court's dismissal of the post-conviction relief motion filed by Joe Earl Sweat, but reversed and remanded for resentencing due to the trial court's improper suspension of a portion of Sweat's twenty-year sentence. Sweat…
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