Peckinpaugh v. State

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Gilbert Dale Peckinpaugh pled guilty to one count of failure to register as a sex offender and one count of possession via the Internet of a visual depiction of a child under the age of eighteen engaged in sexually explicit conduct, in the Circuit Court of Pearl River County. For possession via the Internet of a visual depiction of a child under the age of eighteen engaged in sexually explicit conduct (“possession of child pornography”), Peckinpaugh was sentenced to serve twenty years, with five years to serve and fifteen years suspended, pending successful…