Rushing v. State

461 So.2d 710 (1984)

J.B. RUSHING

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 55190.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 5, 1984.

Charles E. Webster, Wood & Twiford, Clarksdale, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Henry C. Clay, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, P.J., and BOWLING and PRATHER, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the court:

This is an appeal from a criminal conviction in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County, by J.B. Rushing, appellant, who was found guilty of burglary of a dwelling. The court sentenced Rushing, as an habitual offender, to a term of ten years in the…