Beal v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Following a jury trial in the Madison County Circuit Court, Dennis Beal was convicted of selling cocaine to a confidential informant, and he was sentenced to sixty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), as a habitual offender pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 99-19-81 (Rev. 2007). He was also ordered to pay a $2,000,000 fine. Beal raises three issues on appeal, primarily regarding the admission or exclusion of evidence and testimony at trial and the denial of a jury instruction. We find Beal’s arguments to be…