Ashley v. State

538 So.2d 1181 (1989)

Clyde ASHLEY, Jr.

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 58141.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 25, 1989.

Dale H. McDavitt, McComb, for appellant.

Mike Moore, Atty. Gen., by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

Out of the shoplifting and in-store consumption of two cans of sardines, followed by an inept effort to steal the money to pay for the sardines from the home of an elderly woman, Clyde Ashley, Jr. had been sentenced as a recidivist to spend the rest of his life in prison. While we affirm Ashley's conviction of the…