Tate v. State

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

Cloud Tate, Petitioner below and Appellant here, is in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections under two separate sentences — the first a term of three years and the second six years — imposed following two separate convictions of burglary during two separate terms of the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi. The Circuit Court has told Tate he must serve these sentences consecutively.

Tate now argues that his sentences should be reordered so that his six year sentence on the second charge will be served concurrently with so much as…