Legal Opinion

Sumrell v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 10, 2008No. 2005-CT-00963-SCTPublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

¶ 1. Mark Dwayne Sumrell was convicted of felony shoplifting and sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual offender by the Washington County Circuit Court. We assigned the case to the Court of Appeals which affirmed his conviction and sentence in Sumrell v. State, 972 So.2d 648,2006 WL 3490836, 2006 Miss.App. LEXIS 901 (Miss.Ct.App. Dec. 5, 2006) Sumrell filed a petition for certiorari which this Court granted. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. On October 13, 2003, James Ross, a security guard at the Kroger grocery store in Greenville, Mississippi, saw…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Fleming v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1992
  4. Young v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  5. Edwards v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Thomas v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
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  3. Rickey Portis v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  4. Jeffrey Lance Hill v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
  5. Sims v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2013

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