Bell v. State

EN BANC ORDER

This matter comes before the en banc court after granting Charles Sylvester Bell’s petition for certiorari. In 2010, Bell filed his petition for post-conviction relief in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, claiming that his armed robbery conviction violates the Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States and Mississippi Constitutions because the same armed robbery served as the predicate felony in his capital murder conviction. He also argued that his sentence as a habitual offender violated the constitutional prohibition of ex post facto application of the law.

In 2011, the…