Lewis v. State

LEE, J.,

for the Court.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 1. On December 6, 2001, Gralding Cap-ice Lewis and Linda Mangum were indicted on charges of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, burglary of a vehicle, and petit larceny. Mangum pled guilty to the charges, but Lewis went to trial in March 2002 on the latter two charges. Lewis’s motion for directed verdict at the close of the State’s case-in-chief was denied, and a DeSoto County jury convicted him of burglary of a vehicle and petit larceny. He *1268was subsequently sentenced to serve four years in prison for the burglary charge and six months in prison for…