Byron Perry v. State of Mississippi

CHAMBERLIN, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. In the Circuit Court of Clay County, a jury convicted Byron Perry of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon by a previously convicted felon. The circuit court sentenced him as a habitual offender to twenty years for the aggravated-assault conviction and ten years for the weapon conviction, to run consecutively. Perry appeals, arguing that his constitutional and statutory rights to a speedy trial were violated and that the evidence was insufficient to support the trial court’s finding that he was a habitual offender.

¶ 2. We hold that Perry’s…