Burnette v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Burnette was charged with two counts of selling marijuana and one count of selling cocaine. A Sumter County jury found him guilty on one marijuana count and not guilty on the other and was unable to reach a verdict on the cocaine charge. A mistrial on this count resulted, and Burnette received a ten-year sentence on the single conviction.

In bringing this appeal Burnette first enumerates as error the court’s denial of his motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and his motion in arrest of judgment, both of which he alleges should have been granted…