Vanwey v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Alisha Vanwey pleaded guilty in 2007 to three counts of selling hydroco-*1024done in DeSoto County, and the trial court sentenced her as a habitual offender under Mississippi Code Section 99-19-81, to eleven years on each count, to run concurrently, in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Vanwey filed a petition for post-conviction relief (PCR) in the DeSoto County Circuit Court, claiming, inter alia, that one of the two prior predicate felonies listed in her indictment alleging habitual-offender status did not meet the…