Booker v. State

716 So.2d 1064 (1998)

Sam BOOKER a/k/a Sammie Lee Booker

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 96-KA-00404-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 16, 1998.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1998.

Leslie D. Roussell, Tiebauer & Roussell, Waynesboro, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Billy L. Gore, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for Appellee.

Before SULLIVAN, P.J., and McRAE and SMITH, JJ.

McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Sam Booker was indicted as an habitual offender by a jury of the Covington County Circuit Court on July 12, 1995, for the burglary of an apartment occupied by his estranged…