Mayo v. State

KING, P.J., for the court.

¶ 1. James R. Mayo was originally convicted of DUI-first offense and possession of paraphernalia in the Justice Court of Copiah County, Mississippi. He appealed this conviction to the Copiah County Circuit Court which affirmed the justice court’s conviction of the DUI charge but dismissed the possession charge in a de novo bench trial. Aggrieved by his conviction, Mayo has appealed and raised the following issue which we quote verbatim:

Whether the trial court erred in finding that sufficient probable cause existed for the discovery of Appellant’s Driving Under the…