Bolton v. State

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Dondrego Bolton was charged with burglary of a dwelling in 2010. He was found guilty in the Circuit. Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Bolton’s indictment originally charged him with breaking and entering a dwelling with the intent to commit larceny. At trial, the jury was instructed on burglary of a dwelling and the lesser-included offense of trespassing. The jury was told that if it found that Bolton had broken and entered into the home “[w]ith the intent to commit the crime of larceny or any…