Sanders v. State

LEE, P.J.,

for the Court:

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 1. The motion for rehearing is denied, and this opinion is issued in lieu of our previous per curiam affirmance.

¶ 2. On October 31, 1991, Mervin Sanders was convicted in the Circuit Court of Pike County of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without eligibility for parole or probation. He was ordered to pay a $30,000 fine. The supreme court affirmed Sanders’s conviction and sentence. Sanders v. State, 678 So.2d 663, 671…