Carl Anthony Houston, Jr. v. State of Mississippi

GRIFFIS, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Carl A. Houston Jr. was convicted and sentenced for the possession of contraband in a correctional facility, pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 47-5-193 (Rev. 2011). In this appeal, Houston argues that section 47-5-193 is unconstitutionally vague and that the court erred in sentencing him.

¶ 2. On March 3, 2012, Houston was incarcerated in Leake County Regional Correctional Facility. Antwon Pankey, a guard at the facility, searched Houston after-he had completed his visitation with his girlfriend. Pankey felt something hard in the back pocket of…