Watts v. State
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
1Opinion of the Court
CARLTON, J.,
for the Court.
¶ 1. Carl Dewayne Watts appeals the Forrest County Circuit Court’s dismissal of his motion for post-conviction relief. Watts was indicted as a habitual offender for the sale of cocaine. After pleading guilty, he received a thirty-year sentence. Watts’s sentence was suspended, provided that he comply with several conditions. Watts did not comply, and his suspended sentence was revoked. Aggrieved, he now appeals, asserting five separate alleged errors by the circuit court.
FACTS
¶ 2. In September 2005, a Forrest County grand jury indicted Watts as a habitual offender for…
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