Jones v. State

PAYNE, J.,

for the Court:

PROCEDURAL HISTORY AND FACTS

¶ 1. On September 29, 1995, Henry Jones pled guilty in the Sunflower County Circuit Court to escape and was sentenced to serve five years as an habitual offender in addition to the sentences he was already serving for other crimes. Jones filed a petition for post-conviction relief claiming his counsel was ineffective and that his *579indictment was faulty; such petition was denied August 13, 1999. The court, recognizing that the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned one of Jones’s prior convictions, eliminated Jones’s status as an habitual…